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PLYMOUTH ROADS AND STREETS
CATTE STREET
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of Catte Street, Plymouth
Catte
Street, Plymouth, ran eastwards from
High Street to Batter Street
and continued as Stillman Street.
Origin of the name, Catte Street
Quoted in its
earliest form as "Katt Strete", this is supposed to be a back
formation from Cattewater. The "Catte" is also thought to
refer to a rock formation at the entrance to the Cattewater.
The earliest Ordnance Survey maps refer to Bears Head Rock where
Queen Anne's Battery was later constructed. This may have
given the appearance of a cat at one time. [1]
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History of
Catte Street, Plymouth
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Worth
quotes from an undated rental, probably of the early 16th century, 'Katt strete'
and from a Town Rental of 1706 that: 'Cat Street begins from pomroys
conduit to Mr Cownes'. [2]
On
Benjamin Donn's map of 1765 it is clearly shown as "Cat Street". [3]
It was
in a small, first-floor room over a shop in Catte Street that the
Plymouth Mutual Co-operative and Industrial Society commenced trading in
1860. [4]
By 1890
Catte Street had been absorbed into Stillman Street. [5]
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Some Views of
Catte Street, Plymouth
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Occupants of Catte
Street, Plymouth
Principal Sources:
[1] Worth,
R N, "Calendar of the Plymouth Municipal Records", R N Worth,
Plymouth, 1893; Gover, J E B, et al, "The Place-names of Devon, Part
One", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969; Ordnance
Survey, 1 Inch to the Mile, First Edition, Sheet CXXIII, Ordnance
Survey Office, Southampton, 1867.
[2] Worth,
R N, "Calendar of the Plymouth Municipal Records", R N Worth,
Plymouth, 1893.
[3] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
[4] See
Business Houses,
Plymouth Mutual Co-operative and Industrial Society.
[5] White,
William, "Plymouth 1890: History and Directory", reprint,
Hindsight Publications, King's Lynn, 1989.
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