Gallery 31 - Portwrinkle to Cremyll
Drake's Island
A view from Mount Edgcumbe Park over Drake's or St. Nicholas's Island to Plymouth
A chapel was built on the Island and later dedicated to St. Nicholas .
In the late 1599 barracades and barracks for 300 men were built .
In 1880 a battery was built for 21 guns in an arc of stone casemates with iron shields. Privately owned since 1995
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Date: 12/10/2015
Location: SX 456.523