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Plymouth Hoe

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Francis Drake supposedly spied the Spanish fleet from this grassy headland overlooking Plymouth Sound (the city's wide bay); the bowling green on which he continued to finish his game after the sighting was probably where his statue now stands. The wide villa-backed promenade features scores of war memorials.

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