Editing Plymouth Hoe (section)

==Landmarks==
[[Image:Smeatons Lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Smeaton's Tower]], as re-erected on Plymouth Hoe]]
A prominent landmark on the Hoe is [[Smeaton's Tower]]. This is the upper portion of [[John Smeaton]]'s [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], which was originally built on the [[Eddystone Rocks]], located {{convert|14|mi|km|1}} to the south, in 1759. It was dismantled in 1877 and moved, stone by stone, to the Hoe where it was re-erected.<ref name=thinfo>{{cite web
| title = Eddystone Lighthouse
| url = http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/interactive/gallery/eddystone.html
| publisher = [[Trinity House]]
| access-date = 6 September 2006}}</ref>

Smeaton's Tower overlooks [[Tinside Lido]], a 1930s outdoor pool or [[Lido (swimming pool)|lido]] which sits upon the limestone shoreline at the base of the cliff. Most of the works to create the swimming areas and Madeira Road were carried out to make work for the local unemployed during the Depression.

A statue of Sir Francis Drake by [[Joseph Boehm]] (a copy of the original in his home town of [[Tavistock]]) was placed here in 1884 to commemorate him.<ref name="NP">{{cite book
|title=The Buildings of England – Devon
|author= Cherry, Bridget & [[Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner, Nikolaus]]
|publisher=Penguin
|location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex
|year=1989
|pages=665
|isbn=0-14-071050-7
}}</ref> There are also several war memorials along the northern side of the Hoe. The largest commemorates the Royal Naval dead of the two world wars; its central obelisk is by [[Robert Lorimer]] and was unveiled in 1924, while the surrounding sunken garden was added by [[Edward Maufe]] in 1954.<ref name="NP" /><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://plymouthdata.info/Memorial-Naval%20War.htm
|title=Plymouth, Naval War Memorial
|publisher=Plymouth Data
|access-date=2 March 2008
|last=Moseley
|first=Brian |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071011221850/http://www.plymouthdata.info/Memorial-Naval%20War.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 11 October 2007}}</ref> The [[Armada Memorial]] was opened in 1888 to celebrate the tercentenary of the [[Spanish Armada]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Worth|first1=Richard|title=History of Plymouth: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time|date=1890|publisher=W. Brenden|location=Plymouth|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth02wortgoog/page/n71 51]–54|url=https://archive.org/details/historyplymouth02wortgoog}}</ref>

The Hoe also includes a long broad tarmacked promenade (currently a disabled motorists car park) which serves as a spectacular military parade ground and which is often used for displays by Plymouth-based [[Royal Navy]], Royal Marines, the Army garrison, as well as for [[travelling funfair]]s and open-air concerts.

Set into the shape of the southern sea facing fortifications of the [[Royal Citadel, Plymouth|Royal Citadel]] is the Citadel Hill Laboratory of the [[Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom|Marine Biological Association of the UK]], which also houses the [[Continuous Plankton Recorder|Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science]]. Below and to the east, perched on the rocky foreshore is the clubhouse of the Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club.