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Museums and heritage

  • Visit The Box

  • Information on accessing archives and records

  • Information about Smeaton's tower including opening times

  • Information about Elizabethan House including opening hours

  • Find out more about the Mayflower Museum by visiting the Visit Plymouth website

  • We're responsible for the maintenance of all but one war grave on the Hoe, which is maintained by the War Graves Commission

  • Plaques add interest to the local built environment, and help local residents and visitors to understand the history and character of the city

  • Boundary stones, milestones and other markers add great interest to the local heritage landscape, there are estimated to have been over 1,000 stones in the Plymouth area

  • National heroes from our area

  • Saltash Passage is situated on the Plymouth side of the River Tamar in St Budeaux, opposite Saltash and adjacent to the northern end of Wolseley Road

  • The Laira heritage trail route starts on the eastern side of Laira Bridge and finishes about a kilometre north of the entrance to Blagdon's Meadow