Friday 18 March 2016

Plymouth Sound - England

One of the best long distance paths in the country. Fabulous scenery all the way but parts of it are quite tough as lots of cliffs and that means hills.
 It is amazing view on amazing scenery of sea. It isn't possible to forget this place. I enjoyed my last day in England before moving to my home Poland. Realy miss this wonderful view of English's coast.It stay with me for long time
Plymouth Sound, or locally just The Sound, is a bay on the English Channel at Plymouth in England.
Its southwest and southeast corners are Penlee Point in Cornwall and Wembury Point in Devon, a distance of about 3 nautical miles (6 km). Its northern limit is Plymouth Hoe giving a north-south distance of nearly 3 nautical miles (6 km).
The Sound has three water entrances. The marine entrance is from the English Channel to the south, with a deep-water channel to the west of the Plymouth Breakwater. There are two freshwater inlets: one, from the northwest, is from the River Tamar via the Hamoaze and Devonport Dockyard, the largest naval dockyard in western Europe. The other, at northeast, is from the River Plym disgorging into its narrow estuary, Cattewater harbour between Mount Batten and the Royal Citadel.
In addition to ships of the Royal Navy, large commercial vessels, including ferries to France and Spain use the Sound from Millbay Docks. Fishing vessels use it from Sutton Harbour beside the old town of Plymouth, called the Barbican. There are marinas at Sutton Harbour, Mount Wise in the Hamoaze and at Turnchapel. Waterborne traffic in the Sound is controlled by the Queen's Harbour Master for Plymouth
 

















 

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