Penlee Point
Penlee Point is a headland on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall in Great Britain .
The 52 m high headland is 2.5 km northeast of Rame Head and 1.5 km southeast of Cawsand at the entrance to Plymouth Sound . Queen Adelaide's Grotto is located in the cliffs , a cave originally built as a lookout in the 18th century. After a visit from Adelaide , the wife of William IV , the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe had it expanded as a folly in the form of a Gothic chapel in 1827/28 .
Above the grotto is the former gun emplacement Penlee Point Battery , a former coastal fortification built from 1889 to 1894 . The remains of the gun emplacement were almost completely removed in the 1970s, and today the area is known as the Penlee Battery Nature Reserve and is a nature reserve of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust .
The South West Coast Path takes you over the headland. Penlee Point has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty since 1959 and is now part of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park .
The English warship Coronation sank in a storm on September 3, 1691 between Penlee Point and Rame Head . The wreck is still around 19 meters deep.
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Individual evidence
- ^ British Listed Buildings: Queen Adelaides Chapel. Retrieved March 18, 2013 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 5 ″ N , 4 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ W.