Penlee Point () is a coastal
headland
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in
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park,
Maker-with-Rame,
Cornwall
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,
UK. The point lies at the entrance to
Plymouth Sound. Bordering the sea, there is a
weather station
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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
Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...
's
dockworkers to identify incoming and outgoing merchant ships.
is the former site of a fort, and is now a
nature reserve
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.
See also
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Penlee Point, Mousehole
References
External links
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Headlands of Cornwall
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