Woodland Fort, Bere Ferrers

Name: Woodland Fort
Address: Bere Ferrers, United Kingdom

#46 among attractions in Bere Ferrers

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Woodland Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth, England. Currently owned by Plymouth City Council, the site is in use but largely derelict. ()

Built: 1863 (161 years ago)Coordinates: 50°24'49"N, 4°9'15"W

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Woodland Fort – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Drake Circus, Armada Centre, Royal Albert Bridge, Mutley Baptist Church.

3 miS
Shopping, Shopping centre
Drake Circus, Bere Ferrers
76 min walk • Drake Circus Shopping Centre is a 425,000-square-foot covered shopping mall in the centre of Plymouth, England, which opened in October 2006. The building was designed by London-based architects Chapman Taylor and built by Bovis Lend Lease.
2.8 miS
Shopping, Shopping centre
Armada Centre, Bere Ferrers
73 min walk • The Armada Centre is a shopping centre in Plymouth, England. It was established in 1986 and refurbished in 2004. The centre is laid out on three floors, with Sainsbury's occupying the upper floor. Other retailers that are housed on the ground floor include Wilko and Laura Ashley.
2.2 miW
Light rail, Bridge
Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash
57 min walk • The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall.
2.4 miS
Church
Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth
62 min walk • Mutley Baptist Church is an evangelical Baptist church and congregation in Mutley Plain, Plymouth, Devon, situated in a large Grade II building, designed by architect J. Ambrose in 1867.
2.2 miW
Bridge
Tamar Bridge, Plymouth
57 min walk • The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash, Cornwall and Plymouth, Devon in southwest England. It is 335 metres long, running adjacent to the Royal Albert Bridge, and part of the A38, a main road between the two counties.
1 miE
Museum, Military base, Historical place
Crownhill Fort, Bere Ferrers
27 min walk • Crownhill Fort is a Royal Commission Fort built in the 1860s in Crownhill as part of Lord Palmerston's ring of land defences for Plymouth.
2.8 miS
Museum, History museum, Art gallery
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Bere Ferrers
72 min walk • Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery closed in 2016. The building was created in 1907–1910 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. Along with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place, it has since been redeveloped into The Box, Plymouth.
1.9 miS
Park
Central Park, Bere Ferrers
50 min walk • Plymouth's Central Park is situated to the north-east of Plymouth city centre in south-west Devon, England. Covering 68 hectares, Central Park is the largest park in Plymouth.
2.1 miS
Cemetery
Ford Park Cemetery, Bere Ferrers
55 min walk • Ford Park Cemetery is a 34.5-acre cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848. At the time it was outside the boundary of the Three Towns and was created to alleviate the overcrowding in the churchyards of the local parish churches.
1 miSE
Church
Church of the Ascension, Bere Ferrers
27 min walk • The Church of the Ascension is a Grade II listed Church of England church in the suburb of Crownhill in Plymouth, Devon. It was designed by the architect Robert Potter and consecrated in 1958.
1.7 miNW
Gothic Revival architecture
Warleigh, Plymouth
44 min walk • Warleigh is an historic estate within the parish of Bickleigh in Devon, about 6 miles from Plymouth. Warleigh House, the manor house of the manor of Tamerton Foliot is situated one mile west of that village on the south-east bank of the River Tavy where it joins the River Tamar.