Penlee Point, Rame

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]

Penlee Point
Coastal headland
Penlee Point in 2017
Coordinates: 50°19′05″N 4°11′20″W
Location	Rame, Cornwall, UK

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.^[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.

See also

• Cornwall portal

• Penlee Point, Mousehole