Category: Mystery

  • What do our local street names mean?

    What do our local street names mean?

    As we’re walking around the Stoke, Morice Town & Ford neighbourhoods of Plymouth, we’ve been thinking about how the various streets and roads got their names. Here’s a list of all the Street & Road Names in the area we are looking at for the Blockhouse Folk: Past, Present & Future project – can you…

  • Local boundary stones

    Local boundary stones

    Would you like to explore local boundary stones in the Stoke, Morice Town & Ford neighbourhoods? Here is some information to get you started! You can find details of the markers of the old boundary of the old Stoke Damerel Manor, and also of the Parish of Stoke Damerel in this pamphlet by the Old…

  • Why is Stoke called Stoke?

    Why is Stoke called Stoke?

    The name of the Stoke neighbourhood of Plymouth gives us interesting ways to find out about the area’s history. The word Stoke originally comes from the Anglo-Saxon description of a fenced or stockade enclosure – and we see this crop up in lots of different places in England, with names that include parts like stoke,…

  • What are these stained glass symbols on pubs in Stoke Village?

    What are these stained glass symbols on pubs in Stoke Village?

    We have been finding out more about these mysterious symbols that you’ll see on pub windows around Stoke Village (on The Blockhouse Inn, and Stoke Inn in particular). First of all, we wondered whether they had something to do with the local Masonic Hall, as the symbols looked kind of similar, and we could see…