Cann Woods

Cann Woods is a forest in Plymouth, England. Cann Woods is situated nearby to the suburb Tamerton Foliot, as well as near Holly Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Crownhill Fort and Knowles Battery.

Crownhill Fort

Castle

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth. Restored by the Landmark Trust, it is now home to several small businesses, museums, exhibitions and a holiday apartment sleeping up to eight people.

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.

Derriford Hospital

Hospital

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Derriford Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Plymouth, England. The hospital serves Plymouth and nearby areas of Devon and Cornwall. It also provides tertiary cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, renal transplant surgery, and immunology/allergy for the whole of the South West Peninsula.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltash and Southway.

Saltash

Photo: Ed Webster, CC BY 2.0.

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

Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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".