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Penlee Point, Rame

Penlee Point, Rame

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Penlee Point (Cornish: Penn Legh, meaning ‘stone-slab headland’) is a coastal headland to the southeast of the village of Rame in southeast Cornwall, UK. The point lies at the entrance to Plymouth Sound.[1]

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Above the point, a little below the Coastal Path, is Queen Adelaide's Grotto, built in 1827/1828 to commemorate the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Mount Edgcumbe.[2][3] Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.

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References

  1. [1]
    Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  2. [2]
    "Queen Adelaides Chapel, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall".
  3. [3]
    "Cornwallinfocus.co.uk".


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