Hartley, Plymouth

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Hartley
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Brandreth Road in Hartley
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Hartley
Location within Devon
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PLYMOUTH
Postcode district PL
Police Devon and Cornwall
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UK
England
Devon
50°23′32″N4°07′37″W / 50.39222°N 4.12694°W / 50.39222; -4.12694

Hartley is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon, England. [1]

It is built on higher ground offering views south towards the sea, east into the South Hams, north over Dartmoor and west to Cornwall. It is bisected by the Tavistock Road which also provides ready access to Mutley and the City centre to the south and more immediate access to the A38 Plymouth Parkway, part of the Devon Expressway linking near Exeter to the motorway network.

Hartley has a nonconformist church, a large branch of Morrisons and is home to Plymouth Croquet Club to the side of Hartley Park and the small independent and Christian King's School. The former Plymouth Workhouse on the junction of Tor Lane and Tavistock Road has been demolished and rebuilt as a gated retirement community. There are some substantial Victorian villas mostly bordering the Tavistock Road, but much of the development particularly of the Venn Estate occurred just before the Second War.

The main entertainment in the area is the Golden Hind pub located at Manadon Roundabout.

References

  1. Bartholomew gazetteer of places in Britain. Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew. 1986. p. 155. ISBN   0702807311.