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  • Thumbnail for Mount Batten
    Mount Batten is a 24-metre (80-ft) tall outcrop of rock on a 600-metre (2000-ft) peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten...
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  • Royal Air Force Mount Batten, or more simply RAF Mount Batten, is a former Royal Air Force station and flying boat base at Mount Batten, a peninsula in...
    8 KB (663 words) - 18:14, 16 December 2023
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    water taxi across it from the Mayflower Steps on Plymouth Barbican to Mount Batten and also Oreston both on the southern bank. The spelling 'Cattewater'...
    2 KB (263 words) - 15:58, 20 April 2022
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    Colonel John Mount Batten, CB, JP (7 April 1843 – 5 March 1916) was a British soldier and landowner. He was the eldest son of John Batten JP FSA, of Somerset...
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    history extends back to the Bronze Age, evolving from a trading post at Mount Batten into the thriving market town of Sutton, which was formally re-named...
    178 KB (14,599 words) - 15:15, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ictis
    include St Michael's Mount and Looe Island off the coast of Cornwall, the Mount Batten peninsula in Devon, and the Isle of Wight further to the east. Diodorus...
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    Magna and Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. It was the birthplace of John Mount Batten. The settlement is centred around the 17th Century Up Cerne Manor but...
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  • Look up Mountbatten or Mount Batten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mount Batten is an outcrop of rock on a peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England...
    899 bytes (170 words) - 22:03, 11 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for 702 Naval Air Squadron
    July 1936 as a Catapult Flight for the 2nd Battle Squadron based at RAF Mount Batten and routinely embarking in RN ships such as, HMS Nelson, HMS Rodney and...
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  • Thumbnail for History of Plymouth
    extends back to the Bronze Age, when the first settlement began at Mount Batten a peninsula in Plymouth Sound facing onto the English Channel. It continued...
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  • Thumbnail for Postage stamps and postal history of the Orange Free State
    Free State and the Orange River Colony, 1868-1910 by Archibald George Mount Batten, 1973. Orange Free State : postal and other markings, 1868-1910, an original...
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    Hams. It comprises the villages Billacombe, Elburton, Goosewell, Hooe, Mount Batten, Oreston, Pomphlett, Staddiscombe, Turnchapel and Plymstock proper, the...
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    besiegers were able to build a battery on the headland later called Mount Batten, effectively preventing ships from entering Sutton Pool and forcing the...
    17 KB (1,819 words) - 12:14, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for No. 461 Squadron RAAF
    in the Bay of Biscay and Atlantic. No. 461 Squadron was formed at RAF Mount Batten in Britain on 25 April 1942 as an anti-submarine squadron raised under...
    10 KB (859 words) - 23:19, 27 September 2022
  • York Batten Kill Railroad, a class III railroad operating in New York Mount Batten, an outcrop of rock at Plymouth Sound in England Sail batten, a flexible...
    999 bytes (188 words) - 17:26, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for No. 19 Group RAF
    Bristol Beaufighter TF.10 multi-role aircraft The group relocated to RAF Mount Batten in 1947. In 1953, initial NATO documents instructing Admiral Creasey...
    9 KB (925 words) - 17:04, 25 October 2023
  • Archibald George Mount Batten (1902[citation needed] – 17 May 1996) was a British insurance industry executive and philatelist who was a specialist in...
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    Plym disgorging into its narrow estuary, Cattewater harbour between Mount Batten and the Royal Citadel. In the centre of the Sound, midway between Bovisand...
    12 KB (1,131 words) - 01:22, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jennycliff Bay
    Sound, Shores and Cliffs. From its upper grassy area, the bay overlooks Mount Batten and Plymouth Sound. Jennycliff Bay forms part of the Site of Special...
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  • the coastal reconnaissance flight based at RAF Cattewater (later RAF Mount Batten), Plymouth, equipped with five Supermarine Southampton flying boats,...
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