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ROADS AND STREETS

HIGHER LANE

Created:  27 July 2011 

 
Location of Higher Lane

Higher Lane was one of three thoroughfares that ran between Saint Andrew Street to the west and High Street (formerly Market Street) to the east.  The others were appropriately named Middle Lane and Lower Lane.

Higher Lane should not be confused with Higher Street.

Origin of the name, Higher Lane

The origin is simply because it was the higher of the three Lanes.

 

Loader's Lane, Linam Lane and Patrick Lane, Plymouth.

In 1765 Higher Lane was known as Loader's Lane.

History of Higher Lane

At the time of Benjamin Donn's map of Plymouth in 1765 Higher Lane was known as Loader's Lane.  [1]

By the 1860s, when the Ordnance Survey made the map on the right, it was named as Higher Lane.

 Higher Lane, Middle Lane and Lower Lane in 1860.
In 1860 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as Higher Lane.

Some Views of Higher Lane

 

 

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Occupants of Higher Lane

  • in 1935 to follow

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.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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