Astor Playing Fields

Astor Playing Fields is a park in Plymouth, England. Astor Playing Fields is situated nearby to the church Plymouth Christian Centre, as well as near Embankment Road Post Office.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of St John the Evangelist and National Marine Aquarium.

Church of St John the Evangelist

Church

Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of St John the Evangelist in Plymouth, Devon, England is a grade II listed Anglican parish church. It was built 1851-1855 by Benjamin Ferrey, who had been a pupil of Pugin. Church of St John the Evangelist is situated 1,300 feet west of Astor Playing Fields.

National Marine Aquarium

Public aquarium

Photo: Markles55, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The National Marine Aquarium, which opened in May 1998, is situated in Plymouth in south-west England. It is the largest aquarium in the UK and houses over 5,000 animals. National Marine Aquarium is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Astor Playing Fields.

Sutton Harbour

Marina

Photo: Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sutton Harbour, formerly known as Sutton Pool, is the original port of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is still a busy fishing port and marina and is bounded on one side by the historic Barbican district. Sutton Harbour is situated 2,400 feet west of Astor Playing Fields.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cattedown and Lipson.

Cattedown

Suburb

Photo: Adrian Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cattedown is an inner city suburb of Plymouth, Devon. Its position beside the River Plym estuary just short of the mouth led to its early settlement. It is believed that the name Cattedown originated from a rocky outcrop nearby on the River Plym that looked like a cat.

Lipson

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lipson is a ward in the city of Plymouth, England. It is an area with mixed terraced housing, some subdivided into bedsits and flats and a public open-space called 'Freedom Fields', a Civil War battle site where the townsfolk of nearby Plymouth resisted substantial Cavalier raiding parties and enabled the town to sustain the royalist siege.

Mount Batten

Locality

Photo: Trysca, Public domain.

Mount Batten is a 24-metre -tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten, MP and Surveyor of the Navy.

Astor Playing Fields

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

50.36963° or 50° 22′ 11″ north

Longitude

-4.12282° or 4° 7′ 22″ west

Open location code

9C2Q9V9G+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 54830213

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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