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CROWNHILL (CROWN HILL)

The Crownhill district of Plymouth is on the north side, on the road to Tavistock.  It was previously known as Crown Hill, after a house of that name that stood on the highest point where the Crownhill Hutments are on this map.  The village was known as Knackersnowle in April 1889 but as Crownhill in July of that year.

Until the War Department took possession of parts of the land in the 1850s in order to erect defences around the northern rim of Plymouth, the boundaries between the four ancient parishes that met here were better defined.  This map shows how it looked in 1933.

                        St Budeaux Parish                         Tam. Foliot Parish        Egg Buckland

This shows the location of Crownhill and the boundaries between St Budeaux and Eggbuckland parishes.

               Weston Peverell Parish                      Egg Buckland Parish

It clearly shows that almost the entire Crownhill Barracks fell within the parish of Egg Buckland, as did the village school.  Crownhill Fort was mostly in the parish of St Budeaux but not quite all of it.  The chapel-of-ease, Holy Trinity, was right on the edge of St Budeaux, the southern wall marking the start of Egg Buckland parish.

 

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