Skip to content
Mixroutes
Suburb of Plymouth, Devon · United Kingdom

Keyham, Plymouth

Keyham is a Victorian-built area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.

The place

Keyham is a Victorian-built area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It was built to provide dense cheap housing just outside the wall of HM Dockyard Devonport for the thousands of civilian workmen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Keyham, Plymouth

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Plymouth

    The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With 18,410 students, it is the 57th largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students.

    3 km · university in Plymouth, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Home Park

    Home Park is a football stadium in the area of Milehouse, Plymouth, Devon, England. With a capacity of 17,900, the ground has been the home of Plymouth Argyle Football Club since 1903, and was also used between 1900 and 1903 by Argyle Athletic club and Argyle F.C. and for athletics and rugby.

    1.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Plymouth Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Boniface in Plymouth, England, is the seat of the Bishop of Plymouth and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth, which covers the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. The Diocese of Plymouth was created in 1850 after the issuing of the papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae.

    2.2 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Plymouth, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tamar Bridge

    The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash in Cornwall and Plymouth in Devon, South West England. It is 335 metres long, running adjacent to the Royal Albert Bridge and part of the A38, a main road between the two counties.

    3.1 km · suspension bridge in southwest England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Armada Memorial

    The Armada Memorial is a monument on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, Devon, England. Built in 1888, the monument celebrates the tercentenary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, which was sighted by English captains stationed in the city.

    3.3 km · monument in Plymouth, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mount Edgcumbe House

    Mount Edgcumbe House is a stately home in south-east Cornwall and is a Grade II listed building, whilst its gardens and parkland are listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is situated in the parish of Maker on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound; its main entrance is in the village of Cremyll.

    3.5 km · house museum in Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Smeaton's Tower

    Smeaton's Tower is the reconstructed upper section of the third Eddystone Lighthouse, now a memorial to its designer, civil engineer John Smeaton. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction.

    3.4 km · lighthouse in Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Royal Citadel

    The Royal Citadel in Plymouth, Devon, England, was built in the late 1660s to the design of Sir Bernard de Gomme. It is at the eastern end of Plymouth Hoe overlooking Plymouth Sound, and encompasses the site of the earlier fort that had been built in the time of Sir Francis Drake.

    3.6 km · fort in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mount Edgcumbe Country Park

    Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is a grade I listed country park in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The 885 acres country park is on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar.

    3.7 km · country park in Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    City College Plymouth

    City College Plymouth is a tertiary institution and further education college in South West England offering a range of technical, professional and vocational qualifications, Apprenticeships, Access to Higher Education and Foundation Degree courses, plus professional and bespoke training to local employers. The college is a partner college of the University of Plymouth, who support their Foundation Degree provision.

    1.5 km · college in Plymouth, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Keyham, Plymouth

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 127 km · Bristol (BRS), 151 km · Brest Bretagne airport (BES), 216 km
Stations
Plymouth railway station, 2.5 km · Saltash railway station, 3.3 km · Devonport railway station, 900 m · Keyham railway station, 500 m · Dockyard railway station, 400 m
  • Cardiff → Keyham, Plymouth
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £22–30
  • Bristol → Keyham, Plymouth
    162 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £18–24
  • London → Keyham, Plymouth
    310 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · £32–42
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Keyham, Plymouth

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Keyham, Plymouth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you are coming in by car but don't want to face the parking problems of the city-centre, there are also three main Park & Ride sites serving the city: (east near Plympton), (north) and (city centre) {{go | name | url | address | long | phone | hours | wikidata 2023-12-31 | content=Brittany Ferries operates services to Plymouth from Santander (22 hours) and Roscoff (6 hours during the day, 8 hours during the night).
  • Get inThe Ferry Terminal is to the west of the City Centre at the Millbay Docks, about (800 m) a mile walk from the Hoe and Central shopping precinct.
  • Get aroundOne of the most 'local' ways to get around is by water taxi or boat.
  • Get aroundThe two most popular services amongst locals are probably the Barbican-Mountbatten line and the Cremyll Ferry from Admiral's Hard to Mount Edgecumbe.
  • Get aroundThese can be relatively busy during the evenings and at rush hour; the Cremyll Ferry in particular can be quite full of school children at around 4pm during term time.

From Wikivoyage: Plymouth (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    206 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    488 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    615 km

If you know how people move in Keyham, Plymouth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Keyham, Plymouth

  • Plymouthcity in Devon, England2.9 km
  • Saltashtown and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Torpointtown on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Stonehousehistorical town in Devon, Cornwall, England; part of Plymouth1.9 km
  • Cremyllvillage in Maker-with-Rame, Cornwall2.8 km
  • Stokearea of Plymouth, Devon, England, UK1.1 km