Penlee Point (Cornish: Penn Legh, lit. 'stone-slab headland') is a coastal headland in Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall, UK. The point lies at the entrance to Plymouth Sound.[1] Bordering the sea, there is a weather station at its end.[2]
Penlee Point | |
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 Penlee Point in 2017 | |
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| Coordinates: 50°19′05″N 4°11′20″W / 50.31806°N 4.18889°W | |
| Location | Rame, Cornwall, UK |
Historical locations
editAbove the point, a little below the Coastal Path, is Queen Adelaide's Chapel (or Grotto), an eyecatcher built in 1827 to commemorate the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Mount Edgcumbe.[3] The Chapel was used as a lookout in the 1920s by Plymouth's dockworkers to identify incoming and outgoing merchant ships.[4] Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
- ^ "Penlee Point Observatory". Western Channel Observatory.
- ^ Historic England (23 January 1968). "Queen Adelaide's Chapel (formerly listed as the Grotto) (Grade II) (1310617)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Walker, Charles (1995). The Spirit of Rame: Rowing in the Waters Off the Rame Peninsular. Rame Gig Club. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-900177-00-9 – via the Internet Archive.
External links
editMedia related to Penlee Point, Maker-with-Rame at Wikimedia Commons
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