Plymouth - Devenport

To the west of Plymouth city center, Devonport has many fine old houses, mainly Georgian and Regency. The Royal Dockyard, established in 1691 by William III, can be visited. There is a memorial to the polar explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, who was born in Devonport in 1868 and died in 1912 while on an expedition to the South Pole with his ship "Discovery" (today in Dundee). Gun Wharf, built between 1718 and 1725 to plans by Vanbrugh, is architecturally interesting.