Stamford Close

Stamford Close is a bus stop in Plymouth, England. Stamford Close is situated nearby to the church St John The Evangelist, as well as near the monument Fort Stamford.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Stamford and The Royal Oak.

Fort Stamford

Monument

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stamford Fort is a 19th-century fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Part of an extensive scheme known as Palmerston Forts, after the prime minister who championed the scheme, it was built to defend the landward approaches to the east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Fort Stamford is situated 590 feet west of Stamford Close.

The Royal Oak

Pub

Photo: Mark A Coleman, CC BY 3.0.

The Royal Oak is a pub, which is situated 1,100 feet east of Stamford Close.

Boringdon Arms

Pub

Photo: MICHAEL ZAWADZKI, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boringdon Arms is a pub, which is situated 1,500 feet north of Stamford Close.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hooe and Mount Batten.

Hooe

Suburb

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hooe is a suburb of Plymstock, Plymouth in the English county of Devon.

Mount Batten

Locality

Photo: Trysca, Public domain.

Mount Batten is a 24-metre -tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy.

Oreston

Suburb

Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oreston, formerly a village on the southern bank of the Cattewater, is now a suburb of Plymouth. It is recorded as Horestone on the 1591 Spry Map of Plimmouth.

Stamford Close

Type: Bus stop
Category: transportation
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.3543° or 50° 21′ 16″ north

Longitude

-4.11688° or 4° 7′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C2Q9V3M+P6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4962013522

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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Highlights include St John The Evangelist and Coastguard.

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