Created:  01 October 2011

This section of the PLYMOUTH DATA website  provides an index to the streets, houses, farms and localities within the mid nineteenth century Boroughs of Devonport and Plymouth and their Ancient Parishes and Municipal Electoral Wards.  The information is based on Ordnance Survey maps dated around 1860 and it therefore cannot be guaranteed that the information applies to any other time period. 

Only locations included on these maps have been indexed so there may be other streets, houses or pubs that are not mentioned.  It should not be inferred that missing places did not exist at the time.

The Ancient Parishes are as follows:

ST ANDREW’S – the Mother Church of all local parishes except Stoke Damerel.  It certainly dates from the year 1264 although its parish records date only from 1581.

STOKE DAMEREL – the Mother Church of Plymouth Dock, renamed Devonport from 1824.  The parish records date from 1595.

EAST STONEHOUSE – Although the Church existed by 1497, the Parish was not created until 1746.  It was a chapelry of Saint Andrew’s.  Some records exist from 1697.

CHARLES – A modern parish created by Act of Parliament in 1641 and subdivided from St Andrew’s in 1644.  The church was consecrated in 1665 and the parish includes the tything of Compton Gifford.

The Parishes of Eggbuckland, Pennycross and Saint Budeaux, as well as the part of Charles Parish that was in the Tything of Compton Gifford (i.e. outside of the Borough of Plymouth) have not been included.

Click on STREET DIRECTORY to go to the index of streets, their parishes and wards.