The largest city in
Devon in south-west
England. Historically, it was Britain's greastest naval base. Now one of Britain's few remaining naval dockyards, it is situated at the mouths of the rivers Plym
? and Tamar
?. Heavily blitzed by the
Luftwaffe during
World War II, Plymouth was one of the English cities to be rebuilt by [Lord Abercrombie]
? in the 1950s.
Plymouth has a university, the [University of Plymouth]? which has a slight tendency to specialise in naval and maritime related disciplines.
The city has one football club which plays football at the national level, Plymouth Argyle F.C..