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Pennycomequick, Plymouth — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Pennycomequick is an inner suburb of the city of Plymouth, in Devon, standing on the site of a former Devonport prison.
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A prison site turned suburb. Pennycomequick stands among the inner suburbs of Plymouth, which means a room here is inside the city rather than out in the Devon country beyond it, and on ground the record ties to Devonport. The account names no landmark at all.
Plymouth itself carries the beds and the sights.
About Pennycomequick
What are the main landmarks in Pennycomequick?
Pennycomequick's landmark list is blank. No church, monument or museum is recorded for Pennycomequick, and what the account offers in place of a landmark is the ground itself: the site of a former Devonport prison, taken into the inner suburbs of Plymouth. Devon supplies the wider setting.
Sightseeing means walking into the city.
What is the history of Pennycomequick?
A prison stood here. Pennycomequick is recorded as the site of a former Devonport prison, and the account carries the name no further back than that, without a founding year, a charter or a dated event. The site passed into Plymouth.
What had been prison ground became part of the inner suburbs of the city, in Devon, and that is the whole of the sequence the record preserves for the place.
Where is Pennycomequick?
Pennycomequick lies among the inner suburbs of the city of Plymouth, in Devon, England, on ground once held by a Devonport prison.
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Updated September 2026