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Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada.
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Plymouth Hoe from Mount Batten.
Plymouth Hoe, referred to locally as the Hoe, is a large south facing open public space in the English coastal city of Plymouth.
The Hoe is adjacent to and above the low limestone cliffs that form the seafront and it commands views of Plymouth Sound, Drake's Island, and across the Hamoaze to Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall.
Smeaton's Tower, as re-erected on Plymouth Hoe.
The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade ( currently a disabled motorists car park ) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth based Royal Navy, Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for funfairs and open-air concerts.
Plymouth Hoe has become notorious over recent years for the development of the sport known locally as ' tombstoning ' generally undertaken by youths taking spectacular leaps from the waterfront cliffs and fortifications into the sea.
* Old photos of Plymouth Hoe
* A local's photos of Plymouth Hoe
* Plymouth Hoe Guide and Event Portal
Its northern limit is Plymouth Hoe giving a north-south distance of nearly 3 nautical miles ( 6 km ).
* June 30 – The Marine Biological Association Laboratory opens on Plymouth Hoe, Devon, UK.
Likewise, although never mentioned, Smeaton's Tower on the seafront at Plymouth Hoe, was used for the honeymoon of " Shorty " Blake ( Mills ) and his wife Freda ( Kay Walsh ).
His lighthouse remained in use until 1877 when the rock underlying the structure's foundations had begun to erode ; it was dismantled and partially rebuilt at Plymouth Hoe where it is known as Smeaton's Tower.
In 1588 Brixham watched Sir Francis Drake attacking the Spanish Armada after he had ( so the legend goes ) finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe.
Corineus supposedly slew the giant by throwing him into the sea near Plymouth ; Richard Carew notes the presence of chalk figures carved on Plymouth Hoe in his time.
Plymouth Hoe from Mount Batten
The path follows roads past Stonehouse Barracks and Millbay Docks to Plymouth Hoe with its views across Plymouth Sound.
The match is traditionally presumed to have occurred at Plymouth Hoe on the Cornish-Devon border, although Rame Head is a nearby alternative location.
* June 30-The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom opens its laboratory on Plymouth Hoe.
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Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 and an important symbol in American history.
In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts .< ref >
In Plymouth, Massachusetts, there is a 1633 account of the husband of Mary Ring auctioning her cranberry-dyed petticoat for 16 shillings.
Another version of the story is that he canvassed with Nancy, Lady Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton, and received an embarrassingly friendly welcome at boarding houses who were used to renting rooms by the hour to sailors and their lady companions.
* 1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Among Open assemblies, also termed Plymouth Brethren, the Eucharist is more commonly called the Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper.
* 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
The Hamoaze (; ) is an estuarine stretch of the tidal River Tamar, between the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound, England.
On his father's side, Hefner claims he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford.
John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.
Millbridge is a small neighbourhood of Plymouth, on the boundary of what used to be the towns of Plymouth and Devonport, in the English county of Devon.
A summer bus service, the Transmoor link from Plymouth to Exeter and vice versa, passes through the town and there is a daytime service linking Princetown to Yelverton and Tavistock, but in general public transport is poor and any visitors hoping to visit Plymouth or the nearby town of Tavistock via bus in the evening will be disappointed.
Mutley Plain is a street in Plymouth, Devon, England.
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Hillside was a minor operation first worked by George W. Shonk and John Barry, operating as the Barry, Shonk & Dooley Coal Co., perhaps on land owned by the Barry family, old settlers on Plymouth Mountain east of Poke Hollow.
Of all Rennie's works, that which appeals most strongly to the imagination is perhaps the breakwater at Plymouth Sound, consisting of a wall a mile in length across the Sound, in about of water, and containing 3, 670, 444 tons of rough stone, besides of masonry on the surface.
According to the blue plaque on the wall outside Plymouth House (), the house is believed to have been formerly part of the monastery, perhaps functioning as a halled house for some time in the fifteenth century.
There are perhaps 1, 000, 000 people who can be roughly classified as Plymouth Brethren worldwide, the majority of which belong to the Open Brethren.
Tregelles was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth, of Quaker parents, but he himself for many years was in communion with the Plymouth Brethren and then later in life became a Presbyterian ( or perhaps an Anglican ).
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They live in warm-temperate and tropical waters and are best represented in major rivers in Southeast Asia, Plymouth, UK, northeast South America, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of California.
Possibly the best source, however brief, on Standish's origins and early life is a short passage recorded by Nathaniel Morton, secretary of Plymouth Colony, who wrote in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, that Standish:
it is best known as the location of Cordage Park, a small village where the Plymouth Cordage Company was once headquartered.
Times Higher Education ranked Plymouth between 300th and 350th in its World University Rankings 2011 – 12, and ranked it as 60th in a list of the hundred best universities under fifty years old, in a new table published in May 2012.
He became a professional player in 1973 with Plymouth Argyle, where he scored 61 goals in 155 appearances and is considered to be one of the club's best players.
The series was best known for competition among American V8 sedans such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Plymouth Barracuda, Mercury Cougar, AMC Javelin, Pontiac Firebird, and Dodge Challenger in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Plymouth College has the reputation of being one of the best business schools in the UK.
Their best run however came during the 1992 – 93 season, where Scarborough knocked Bradford City, Coventry City and Plymouth Argyle out of the competition.
While waiting for the fall of Hull and Plymouth, Charles naturally decided to make the best use of his time by reducing Gloucester, the one great fortress of Parliament in the west.
Derryn Nigel Hinch ( born 9 February 1944 in New Plymouth, New Zealand, now an Australian citizen ) is an Australian media personality, best known for his work on Melbourne radio.
The best known American econoboxes were the Chevrolet Chevette and the Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon.
David Cross ( born April 23, 1949 ) is an electric violinist born in Turnchapel near Plymouth, England, best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson during the 1970s ( particularly on Larks ' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red ).
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