Oakham Road

Places of Interest Nearby

Knowles Battery

Fort

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Knowles Battery is a former 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 north east of Plymouth, as an element of the plan for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. Knowles Battery is situated 2,000 feet southwest of Oakham Road.

St Chad’s

Church

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Chad’s is a church, which is situated 2,200 feet east of Oakham Road.

Woodland Fort

Fort

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woodland Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth, England. Currently owned by Plymouth City Council, the site is in use but largely derelict. Woodland Fort is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Oakham Road.

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Whitleigh

Suburb

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whitleigh is a district area and is in the electoral ward of Budshead in the city of Plymouth in the county of Devon. it had district borders with Southway, Honicknowle, West park, Crownhill and St Budeaux. Whitleigh has a population of 7870…

Tamerton Foliot

Suburb

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Tamerton Foliot is a village situated in the north of Plymouth, in the Plymouth district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. It also lends its name to the ecclesiastical parish of the same name.

Honicknowle

Suburb

Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Honicknowle is an area and ward of the city of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It borders with West Park, Crownhill, Ham, Whitleigh and Pennycross areas of Plymouth. It was previously part of Knackersknowle.

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