Budshead Road Substation
Budshead Road Substation is an electrical substation in Plymouth, England. Budshead Road Substation is situated nearby to Knowle Primary School, as well as near the fort Knowles Battery.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Knowles Battery and Agaton Fort.
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. Knowles Battery is situated 510 feet east of Budshead Road Substation.
Agaton Fort
Fort
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Agaton Fort is situated 1,900 feet west of Budshead Road Substation.
St Francis
Church
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Francis is a church, which is situated 2,100 feet southeast of Budshead Road Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King’s Tamerton and Ernesettle.
King’s Tamerton
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
King's Tamerton is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. It was largely built post-war adjacent to St Budeaux and overlooking the Naval base and the Hamoaze which is the wide estuary of the River Tamar.
Ernesettle
Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ernesettle is mentioned in the Domesday Book, which documented land in England and Wales, and describes as an ‘old Saxon manor’ there. By the 15th century, there were two farms, Great Ernesettle and Little Ernesettle, both named after William Ernstell, a freeholder of Budshead, who owned land here in 1428.
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…
Budshead Road Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.41621° or 50° 24′ 58″ northLongitude
-4.16697° or 4° 10′ 1″ westOpen location code
9C2QCR8M+F6OpenStreetMap ID
way 513862594
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