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ROADS AND
STREETS
CHERRY GARDEN
STREET, DEVONPORT
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of Cherry Garden Street, Devonport Cherry Garden Street, Devonport, ran
south-westwards, parallel to Fore Street, from
Chapel Street to Catherine Street.
Origin of the name, Cherry Garden Street
The origin of the
name is not known but as it was originally called simple Back Street it sounds
more like a nice name dreamed up to give the area a morale boost.
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History of
Cherry Garden Street, Devonport
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Cherry Garden Street was known as Back
Street when Benjamin Donn created his plan of Dock in 1765. At
that time, too, it gave access to Frederick Square Barracks.
[1] It had become Cherry
Garden Street by 1812, albeit with only three occupants [2].
Cherry Garden Street was renamed York Street between 1893 and 1897.
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Whitfield states that the change was made at the request of sailors
who did not want their mates to know that their wives lived in the vicinity.
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The principal building was
the Cherry Garden Street Board School, which later became
York Street School
as a result of the change of street name.
Occupants of Cherry
Garden 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] "The
Picture of Plymouth", Rees and Curtis, Plymouth, 1812.
[3] "Eyre's
Post Office Plymouth and Devonport District Directory 1897", J G
Hammond & Company Ltd, London, 1897.
[4] Whitfeld. Henry Francis, "Plymouth and Devonport: In Times of War
and Peace", E Chapple, Plymouth, and Hiorns & Miller,
Devonport, Second Edition, 1900.
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