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ROADS AND
STREETS
VAUXHALL STREET
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24 September 2011
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| Location
of Vauxhall Street
Vauxhall Street, Plymouth, runs from the
junction with Woolster Street northwards to Exeter Street.
Origin of the name, Vauxhall Street
As early as 1491 it was known as Foxhole Street
and that name is assumed to have been given to it from the location
of a fox's lair in the area in the 15th century. At some point
this was currupted or deliberately changed into the posher Vauxhall
Street.
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| It was Vauxhall Street on Donn's
map of Plymouth in 1765 and note that it only ran as far as Pike
Street. |
History of
Vauxhall Street
Foxhole or Foxhole
Street is referred to in documents dated 1491, 1598 and 1661. [1]
As shown on the
Donn map reproduced above [2], Vauxhall Street ran only from the
junction with Woolster Street to the junction with Pike Street, later Looe
Street, after which it became Tin Street.
However, it appears
as Foxhole Street again in 1812 [3] and 1820 [4] but as Vauxhall
Street in 1827 [5].
Vauxhall Street
absorbed Tin Street circa 1914.
Some Views of
Vauxhall Street
Occupants of Vauxhall Street
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in 1812 (Foxhole
Street)
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in 1890
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in 1935
Sources:
[1] Gover,
J E B, Mawer, A & Stenton, F M, "The Place-names of Devon: Part
One", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969.
[2] Donn,
Benjamin, "A Map of the County of Devon 1765", facsimile, Devon
and Cornwall Record Society and the University of Exeter,
Exeter, 1965.
[3] "The
Picture of Plymouth", Rees and Curtis, Plymouth, 1812.
[4] "Plan
of the Towns and Harbour of Plymouth, Stonehouse, Dock, Morice-Town,
Stoke and Environs in the County of Devon", John Cooke,
Stonehouse, Plymouth, 1820.
[5]
"Cooke's Stranger's Guide or Pocket Plan of the Three Towns of
Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse", Published October 1st 1827
by John Cooke, 82 Union Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth, 1827.
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