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Penlee Point (Cornish: Penn Legh, meaning ‘stone-slab headland’) is a coastal headland to the southeast of the village of Rame in southeast Cornwall, UK. The point lies at the entrance to Plymouth Sound.[1]

Penlee Point
Coastal headland
Penlee Point from the sea
Coordinates: 50°19′05″N 4°11′20″W
Location	Rame, Cornwall,

Historical locations

Above the point, a little below the Coastal Path, is Queen Adelaide's Grotto, built in 1827/1828 to commemorate the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide to Mount Edgcumbe.[2][3] Penlee Battery is the former site of a fort, and is now a nature reserve.

See also

• Penlee Point, Mousehole

References

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