Warleigh Wood

Warleigh Wood is a forest in Bickleigh, South Hams District, England. Warleigh Wood is situated nearby to the suburb Ernesettle, as well as near Holly Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bere Ferrers railway station and Knowles Battery.

Bere Ferrers railway station

Railway station

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Bere Ferrers station on the Tamar Valley Line is situated near the village of Bere Ferrers in Devon, England. The station is on the former Southern main line between Exeter and Plymouth via Okehampton. It is currently operated by Great Western Railway.

Knowles Battery

Fort

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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.

Agaton Fort

Fort

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltash and Southway.

Saltash

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Saltash is a town and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, England. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall".

Southway

Suburb

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Southway is a large suburban housing estate in north-west Plymouth in the English county of Devon. The name is believed to have derived from the route into Plymouth often used by Buckland Abbey monks, which was known as the "South Way".