Penlee Point, Rame
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. Bordering the sea, there is a weather station at its end.
Historical locations
Above 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. The Chapel was used as a lookout in the 1920s by Plymouth's dockworkers to identify incoming and outgoing merchant ships. Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.
See also
References
- ^ 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
Media related to Penlee Point, Maker-with-Rame at Wikimedia Commons
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