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Penlee Point, Rame

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Geology
  
Coastal headland

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Location
  
Rame, Cornwall, England

Penlee Point (Cornish: Penn Legh, meaning stone-slab headland) is a coastal headland to the southeast of the village of Rame in southeast Cornwall, England, UK. The point lies at the entrance to Plymouth Sound.

Historical locations

Above the point, a little below the Coastal Path, is Queen Adelaide's Grotto, built in 1927/1928 to commemorate the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Mount Edgcumbe. Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.

References

Penlee Point, Rame Wikipedia