Crownhill Road Playing Fields

Crownhill Road Playing Fields is a bus stop in Plymouth, England. Crownhill Road Playing Fields is situated nearby to the community center St Budeaux Church Community Hall, as well as near Agaton Social Club.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Agaton Fort and Church of St Budeaux.

Agaton Fort

Fort

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Agaton Fort is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Crownhill Road Playing Fields.

Church of St Budeaux

Church

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Budeaux is situated 1,100 feet west of Crownhill Road Playing Fields.

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 northeast of Crownhill Road Playing Fields.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include King’s Tamerton and Honicknowle.

King’s Tamerton

Suburb

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

King's Tamerton is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. It was largely built post-war adjacent to St Budeaux and overlooking the Naval base and the Hamoaze which is the wide estuary of the River Tamar.

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.