Kingswear Wood

Kingswear Wood is a forest in Kingswear, South Hams District, England. Kingswear Wood is situated nearby to the locality Down End, as well as near Coombe.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dartmouth Castle and Kingswear Castle.

Dartmouth Castle

Castle

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Dartmouth Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. The earliest parts of the castle date from the 1380s, when, in response to the threat of a French attack, the civic authorities created a small enclosure castle overlooking the mouth of the Dart estuary.

Kingswear Castle

Castle

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kingswear Castle is an artillery fort, built to protect Dartmouth harbour in Devon, England. It was constructed between 1491 and 1502 in response to the threat of French attack and was one of the first purpose-built artillery forts in Britain.

Britannia Royal Naval College

Military installation

Photo: Andrew Yong, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, also known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training academy of the Royal Navy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dartmouth and Brixham.

Dartmouth

Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dartmouth is a town in the English Riviera and South Devon region of Devon. A historic port location, Dartmouth's geography and seaside location combined with its traditional architecture make it an idyllic settlement popular with tourists from around Britain and the near continent.

Brixham

Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.

Brixham is a coastal town and civil parish in the borough of Torbay in the county of Devon, in the south-west of England. As of the 2021 census, Brixham had a population of 16,825.

Townstal

Neighborhood

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Townstal is an historic manor and parish on elevated ground now forming part of the western suburbs of the town of Dartmouth, in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.

Kingswear Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Kingswear, South Hams District, Devon, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.3496° or 50° 20′ 59″ north

Longitude

-3.5656° or 3° 33′ 56″ west

Open location code

9C2R8CXM+VQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 255395219

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kingswear and Down End.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kingswear Community Primary School and Hoodown Depot Pontoon.

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