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Over a century ago Plymstock was described as 'a parish and large straggling village in a pleasant valley, near Catwater Harbour and Plymouth Sound, 3 miles East by South of Plymouth.' The parish consisted of several hamlets: Billacombe, Elburton, Goosewell, Mount Batten, Oreston, Pomphlet, Staddiscombe, Turnchapel, and West Hooe. Within the parish have been found many prehistoric artefacts, preserved, no doubt, by the general lack of development of the area over the centuries. Turnchapel, being placed on the Cattewater, grew and prospered from the shipbuilding yards and ancillary trades that became established on the river bank. In 1677 there was a yard for breaming and repairing the King's ships and during the following century a Mr John Cater and a Mr Silas Frost both established shipbuilding and repair yards in the village. It even boasted a wet dock in 1797 and a dry dock a few years afterwards. Even warships were built here for the Royal Navy. Mr Cater built the terrace of houses that line Boringdon Road. Although there was some expansion in Plymstock following the arrival of the railway lines to Yealmpton and Turnchapel, it was the advent of the motor bus in the 1920s that brought the greatest increase in housing and population. On April 1st 1967 the parish of Plymstock was absorbed into the City of Plymouth. Below is a quick index to webpages in PLYMOUTH DATA referring to items
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