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ROADS AND
STREETS
MIDDLE LANE
| Location
of Middle Lane
Middle 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
Higher Lane and
Lower Lane.
Origin of the name, Middle Lane
Simply because it was the middle of the three
lanes between Saint Andrew Street and
High Street, formerly Market
Street.
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In 1765 Middle Lane was known as
Linam Lane. |
History of
Middle Lane
| At the time of
Benjamin Donn's map of Plymouth in 1765 Middle Lane was known as Linam Lane.
[1]
By 1860, when the Ordnance Survey produced the map on the right, it
was named Middle 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 Middle Lane. |
Some Views of
Middle Lane
Occupants of Middle 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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