Penlee Point, Rame

Penlee Point is a headland on the Rame Peninsula, in the county of Cornwall in the UK.

The 52 m high headland located 2.5 km northeast of Rame Head and 1.5 km southeast of Cawsand at the entrance to Plymouth Sound. In the cliffs is the Queen Adelaide 's Grotto, originally created as a lookout in the 18th century cave. After a visit from Adelaide, wife of William IV, she had the second 1827/28 expand Earl of Mount Edgcumbe as Folly in the form of a Gothic chapel.

Above the cave is the gun emplacement Penlee Point Battery, a scale of 1889 to 1894 former coastal fortification. The remains of the gun emplacement were almost completely eliminated in the 1970s, today the site as Penlee Battery Nature Reserve is a nature reserve of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

The South West Coast Path leads over the headland. Since 1959, Penlee Point is identified with as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is now with the Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.