Penlee Point, Rame
50°19′05″N 4°11′20″W / 50.31806°N 4.18889°W / 50.31806; -4.18889
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]
Historical locations
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.
See also
- Penlee Point, Mousehole
References
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Cornwall Portal
- Cornwall Council
- Council of the Isles of Scilly
(cities in italics)
- Bodmin
- Bude
- Callington
- Camborne
- Camelford
- Falmouth
- Fowey
- Hayle
- Helston
- Hugh Town
- Launceston
- Liskeard
- Looe
- Lostwithiel
- Marazion
- Newlyn
- Newquay
- Padstow
- Penryn
- Penzance
- Porthleven
- Redruth
- St Austell
- St Blazey
- St Columb Major
- St Ives
- St Just in Penwith
- Saltash
- Stratton
- Torpoint
- Truro
- Wadebridge
See also: List of civil parishes in Cornwall