Crownhill Fort
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crownhill Library and Derriford Hospital.
Crownhill Library
Library
Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crownhill Library is situated 2,500 feet south of 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. Derriford Hospital is situated 3,600 feet east of Crownhill Fort.
Church of the Ascension
Church
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of the Ascension is a Grade II listed Church of England church in the suburb of Crownhill in Plymouth, Devon. It was designed by the architect Robert Potter and consecrated in 1958. Church of the Ascension is situated 3,300 feet south of Crownhill Fort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manadon and Whitleigh.
Manadon
Suburb
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manadon is a predominantly post-war suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Roughly geographically situated in the centre of the city, it has a primary school, St Boniface's Catholic College, a sports and community hub, two neighbourhood grocers and is home to the Manadon interchange, on the A38 road Parkway.
Whitleigh
Suburb
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitleigh is a district area and is in the electoral ward of Budshead in the city of Plymouth in the county of Devon. it had district borders with Southway, Honicknowle, West park, Crownhill and St Budeaux. Whitleigh has a population of 7870…
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".
Crownhill Fort
- Type: Castle
- Description: Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in England
- Categories: military museum, fort, bunker, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.41343° or 50° 24′ 48″ northLongitude
-4.13047° or 4° 7′ 50″ westOpen location code
9C2QCV79+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 40609405OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q5189558
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In Other Languages
From German to Russian—“Crownhill Fort” goes by many names.
- German: “Crownhill Fort”
- Russian: “Crowhill fort”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Crownhill Centre and Crownhill Reservoir (covered).
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Landmark Windows & Doors and Crownhill Fort Substation.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Crownhill Fort”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.