Mannamead is a suburb of

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

in the county of Devon, England. It was an affluent

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and early Edwardian suburb with wide avenues such as Seymour Road, grand villas and Thorn Park. There are conservation areas but the area has been infilled and become more densely populated. There are very many care homes. The nearest secondary school is Plymouth College but the area has exceptionally frequent bus services passing many other schools. There is solid late Victorian Anglican church named ''Emmanuel'', which has a good set of well rung bells. The church is linked to others at Efford and Laira and a partnership with

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Church of England Primary School. A small row of shops lie on ''Henders Corner'' (the junction between Mannamead Road and Eggbuckland Road), as well as an NHS

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, ''The Mannamead Surgery''. The suburb gives its name to a local branch of

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pub, ''The Mannamead'', which is situated on

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. The ''Penguin Lounge'', formerly ''The Tap and Barrel'', is a locally owned pub situated on Ashford Crescent.

Transport

Mannamead Road, which makes up the majority of the ''B2350'', runs from

Manadon Manadon is a suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It has two primary schools, St Boniface's Catholic College (secondary comprehensive), and is home to the Manadon interchange, on the A38 road. Manadon Park, a development of varyi ...

Roundabout and

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to the North, down to

to the South. This the main traffic route for the area, and as a result hosts a frequent bus service Southbound towards the City Centre. Heading Northbound, there are Plymouth Citybus routes towards the suburbs of

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and Woolwell, as well as

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services use Mannamead Road on the way to Tavistock, whilst a

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route between the City Centre and Hartley Vale serves the backroads of Mannamead, such as Compton Avenue, Rockingham Road and Ashford Road. The Lipson Vale Halt railway station was situated just off of Ashford Road, before it was demolished in 1942 due to being a fire hazard during The Blitz.

Parks and sports

Mutley Park and Thorn Park sit very close to each other just off of Mannamead Road to the West of the suburb. To the East of Mannamead, Trefusis Park, or ''Tippy Park'' to locals, situated off of Old Laira Road, is seen as a dividing line between Mannamead to the West,

and

Laira Laira – previously recorded as Lare(1591), Lary poynte (1638), the Leerie (1643), and the Lairy (1802) – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon ...

to the East,

to the North and

Lipson Lipson is a ward in the city of Plymouth, England. It is an area with mixed terraced housing, some subdivided into bedsits and flats and a public open-space called 'Freedom Fields', a Civil War battle site where the townsfolk of nearby Plymout ...

to the South. Tulgey Woods, a popular Bushcraft and Dog walking location, separates Trefusis Park and Grantley Gardens. There are two Plymouth City Council owned

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, one situated between Seymour Road and Elm Road, the other being situated between Overton Gardens and Compton Avenue. There is a Tennis and Badminton club, as well as the

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Bowling club, situated on Whiteford Road. The Mannamead

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club, actually situated in Higher Compton, lies next to Collings Park, which is home to many local junior

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teams, on Eggbuckland Road.

References

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