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ROADS AND
STREETS
CHAPEL STREET,
DEVONPORT
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of Chapel Street, Devonport Chapel Street, Devonport, ran southwards
from Fore Street to the junction with Cumberland Street, Cumberland Road and George
Street.
Origin of the name, Chapel Street
A chapel was erected
under the authority of a private Act of Parliament obtained in 1769.
It was a chapel-of-ease to the
parish church of Stoke Damerel.
The cost was raised by subscription and the Chapel took as its
dedication the name of the Lord of the Manor,
Saint Aubyn.
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History of
Chapel Street, Devonport
Chapel Street did not exist at the time
Benjamin Donn made his plan of Dock in 1765. [1]
The
Chapel of Saint Aubyn was
completed in 1771 and it assumed that the roadway was constructed at that
time. [2]
In April 1930 Plymouth City Council planned
to make Chapel Street one-way in conjunction with
Saint Aubyn Street.
[3]
Some Views of
Chapel Street, Devonport
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Occupants of Chapel
Street, Devonport
Sources:
[1] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
[2] Worth
R N,
"History of the town and borough of
Devonport, sometime Plymouth Dock",
William Brendon,
Plymouth, 1870.
[3]
Plymouth City Council minute number 2477 dated April 16th 1930.
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