Car hire in Plymouth

Plymouth, a large city, on estuary of Plym and Tamar, with a real history of naval involvement. The dockyards support Royal Naval vessels and there's always a ship in town!. Badly bombed in WWII, the city has a modern shopping centre, yet now the old buildings near the docks are being restored.

There are bridge and ferry crossings into Cornwall over the Tamar, Brunel railway bridge, the Royal Albert Bridge, completed 1859, and a modern road bridge. Nearby towns are commuter land. Main line station.and airport.

Visit the shops at the Barbican, the Pilgrim Fathers left here for the New World in the Mayflower, and the famous statue of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Hoe, overlooks Plymouth Sound and Drakes Island. Seamton's Tower shares the site, its base is old Eddystone Lighthouse which was rebuilt in 1881.

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