Lentney Battery, Plymouth

Name: Lentney Battery
Address: Plymouth, United Kingdom

#37 among attractions in Plymouth

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Lentney Battery is a former 20th-century gun battery, built in 1905 as one of three 6-inch gun batteries to defend the Eastern approaches to Plymouth Sound, for the defence of the Royal Naval Dockyard at Devonport. It shared accommodation with the nearby Renney Battery. ()

Built: 1905 (119 years ago)Coordinates: 50°19'27"N, 4°6'56"W

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Lentney Battery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Drake Circus, Plymouth Pavilions, Barbican, Royal Chapel of St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe.

3.5 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Drake Circus, Bere Ferrers
89 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.
3.4 miNW
Sport complex, Entertainment, Music venue
Plymouth Pavilions, Bere Ferrers
88 min walk • Plymouth Pavilions is an entertainment and sports complex in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has an ice rink and indoor arena. The arena is used as an entertainment venue and also for corporate hire.
3 miN
Theater, Concerts and shows, Harbor
Barbican, Bere Ferrers
77 min walk • The Barbican is the name given to the western and northern sides of Sutton Harbour, the original harbour of Plymouth in Devon, England.
2.9 miN
Church
Royal Chapel of St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe, Bere Ferrers
75 min walk • The Royal Chapel of St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe is the garrison church within the precincts of the Royal Citadel in Plymouth. The original church on the site was licensed for services by the Bishop of Exeter, Thomas de Brantingham, in 1371.
3.4 miNW
Theater, Concerts and shows
Theatre Royal, Bere Ferrers
87 min walk • Theatre Royal, Plymouth, is a theatre venue in Plymouth, Devon. It consists of a 1,300-seat main auditorium, The Lyric, which regularly hosts large-scale musicals, opera and ballet; a 200-seat studio, The Drum; and a 50-seat studio, The Lab.
1.6 miNW
Vernacular architecture, Archaeological site
Plymouth Breakwater, Plymouth
42 min walk • Plymouth Breakwater is a 1,560-metre stone breakwater protecting Plymouth Sound and the anchorages near Plymouth, Devon, England. It is 13 metres wide at the top and the base is 65 metres. It lies in about 10 metres of water. Around 4 million tons of rock were used in its construction in 1812 at the then-colossal cost of £1.5 million.
3.4 miNW
Theater
The Plymouth Athenaeum, Plymouth
86 min walk • Plymouth Athenaeum, located in Plymouth, England, is a society dedicated to the promotion of learning in the fields of science, technology, literature and art.
1 miNW
Forts and castles
Fort Bovisand, Plymouth
26 min walk • Fort Bovisand is a fort in Devon, England near the beach of Bovisand. It was built as a result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which reported in 1860. It is located on the mainland to defend the entrance of Plymouth Sound, at the narrows opposite the east end of Plymouth Breakwater.
1.3 miE
Manor house
Langdon Court, Plymouth
33 min walk • Langdon Court is a former manor house, in Wembury, South Devon, England. It consists of a single courtyard mansion from 1693 and a walled formal garden. The house is a Grade II* listed building, and the garden is Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
2.5 miN
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Radford Cave, Bere Ferrers
63 min walk • Radford Cave, in Hexton Wood, near Hooe, Plymouth, Devon is a small phreatic cave of some ecological interest. It has been known to speleologists and others for many years and a plan was published in 1953.
3.5 miE
Church
Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman
90 min walk • The Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman in the village of Noss Mayo, in Devon, England, was built in 1226. It is located in the former civil parish of Revelstoke.