Bircham Valley

Bircham Valley is a nature reserve in Plymouth, England. Bircham Valley is situated nearby to the suburb Derriford, as well as near Estover.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Derriford Hospital and Crownhill Fort.

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.

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.

Fort Austin

Fort

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fort Austin is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Efford and Eggbuckland.

Efford

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland, Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city.

Eggbuckland

Suburb

Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eggbuckland is a suburb of the city of Plymouth, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. Before the Second World War Eggbuckland was a small village a few miles north of Plymouth.

Plympton

Town

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.

Bircham Valley

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.415° or 50° 24′ 54″ north

Longitude

-4.1126° or 4° 6′ 45″ west

Open location code

9C2QCV7P+XX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 274266291

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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