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
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.36963° or 50° 22′ 11″ northLongitude
-4.12282° or 4° 7′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9V9G+VVOpenStreetMap ID
way 54830213OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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