Laira Battery
Laira Battery 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.- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Historic site
- Description: architectural structure in City of Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Efford and Saltram House.
Fort Efford
Fort
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Efford 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. Fort Efford is situated 1,100 feet north of Laira Battery.
Saltram House
Historic building
Photo: Chilli Head, CC BY 2.0.
Saltram House is a grade I listed George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon". Saltram House is situated 3,000 feet southeast of Laira Battery.
Plym Valley Railway
Museum
Photo: Mark A Coleman, CC BY 3.0.
The Plym Valley Railway is a 1-mile-14-chain heritage railway based on part of the now-closed South Devon and Tavistock Railway, a branch line of the Great Western Railway in Devon, England. Plym Valley Railway is situated 3,300 feet northeast of Laira Battery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crabtree and Efford.
Crabtree
Locality
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crabtree is a suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Originally, it was a small village beside the coaching route around the top of the Plym Estuary where travellers stopped before or after crossing the marshland known as Marsh Mills and the road to Plympton then Exeter and London.
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.
Laira
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Laira – previously recorded as Lare, Lary poynte, the Leerie, and the Lairy – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon, England.
Laira Battery
- Categories: artillery battery, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.38768° or 50° 23′ 16″ northLongitude
-4.09099° or 4° 5′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9WQ5+3JOpenStreetMap ID
way 503949660OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q17677526
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