Penlee Point, Rame
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Penlee Point | |
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 Penlee Point in 2017 | |
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| Coordinates: 50°19′05″N 4°11′20″W / 50.31806°N 4.18889°W | |
| Location | Rame, Cornwall, UK |
Penlee Point (Cornish: Penn Legh, lit. 'stone-slab headland') is a coastal headland in Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall, UK. The point lies at the entrance to Plymouth Sound.[1] Bordering the sea, there is a weather station at its end.[2]
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.[3] The Chapel was used as a lookout in the 1920s by Plymouth's dockworkers to identify incoming and outgoing merchant ships.[4] Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.
