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ROADS AND
STREETS
OLD TOWN WITHOUT
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21 September 2011
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of Old Town Without, Plymouth
Old Town Without, or Old Town Without the Wall
to give it its full title, was the area immediately outside the
Old
Town Gate at the northern end of Old Town, later
Old Town Street.
Origin of the name, Old Town Without
The name is simply derived from the land being
outside the Town Wall and the
Old Town Gate. More information
is given under Old Town Street.
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The area to the north of Old
Town Gate was known as Old Town Without the Wall. [1] |
History of
Old Town Without, Plymouth
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When the Old Town Gate was removed in 1809 it signalled the
beginning of Plymouth's relentless expansion northwards. The
Old Town Wall was quickly plundered for building materials for what
was to become Cobourg Street, Drake Street, Mill Street, Saltash
Street and Tavistock Street (later Tavistock Road). In that
same year the original buildings of the Plymouth Public Free School
were erected in Cobourg Street.
Within a decade the houses in Park Street, Clarence Street and
Regent Street had followed.
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Occupants of Old Town
Without, Plymouth
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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