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ROADS AND
STREETS
LOWER LANE
| Location
of Lower Lane
Lower Lane was one of three thoroughfares that
ran between Saint Andrew Street to the west and
High Street (Market
Street) to the
east. The others were appropriately named
Higher Lane and
Middle Lane.
Lower Lane should not be confused with Lower
Street.
Origin of the name, Lower Lane
Simply, it was the lowest of the three Lanes
between Saint Andrew Street and
High Street, formerly Market
Street).
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In 1765 Lower Lane was known as
Patrick Lane. |
History of
Lower Lane
| At the time of
Benjamin Donn's map of Plymouth in 1765 Lower Lane was known as Patrick
Lane. [1]
By 1860, when the Ordnance Survey produced the
map on the right, it was named Lower Lane.
During the
1860s and 1870s Plymouth Corporation made a number of street
improvements in this area. It demolished the eastern side of
Saint Andrew Street
and widened it. This impacted especially on Lower Lane, which
got widened and rebuilt as Palace Street.
As a result
Middle Lane took over
the name Lower Lane. |
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1860 the Ordnance Survey recorded it as being Lower Lane. |
Some Views of
Lower Lane
Occupants of Lower Lane
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.
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