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ROADS AND
STREETS
BUCKWELL STREET
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02 November 2011
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| Location
of Buckwell Street, Plymouth
In modern Plymouth Buckwell Street runs
southwards from Breton Side to
Vauxhall Street but before the
Second
World War it ran from
Treville Street (which then incorporated
Bilbury Street) to the junction of
Whimple Street and Looe Street at
the old Guildhall.
Origin of the name, Buckwell Street
Tradition says that the name comes from a public well
in the vicinity which the ladies of the Town used to use for washing
their clothes in what then passed for bleach, usually ashes, dung or
urine.
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Buckwell Street in 1765 was known as Higher Broad Street. |
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would appear that the well was later used to feed a public conduit.
Worth refers to an entry in "Simon Carswylle's Book" in the
municipal records for the year 1493 '.... that Richard Gele ought
to repair a conduit in Buckwyllane' [1]. Buckwell
Lane used to run from Buckwell Street to Kinterbury Street.
History of
Buckwell Street, Plymouth
What was in 1493 "Buckwell
strete" [1] had become Higher Broad Street by the time Benjamin Donn
drew his map of Plymouth in 1765 [2]. It was known as Buckwell
Street again by 1820.
Buckwell
Street was the boundary between the parishes of Saint Andrew and Charles.
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Buckwell Street ran southwards from Treville Street and the former
Bilbury Street to Looe Street. |
Some Views of
Buckwell Street, Plymouth
Occupants of Buckwell Street,
Plymouth
Sources:
[1] Worth, R N, "Calendar of
the Plymouth Municipal Records", Plymouth, 1893.
[2] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
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