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ROADS AND STREETS IN OLD DEVONPORT

YEOMAN'S TERRACE

Because there was nothing of any importance at Saint Budeaux when the Cornwall Railway Company opened their single, broad-gauge line from Plymouth Station (Millbay) to the Royal Albert Bridge, they provided no stopping place at Saint Budeaux.  It was not until the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway Company built their line from Lydford Station to Devonport for Stonehouse Station, over which the London and South Western Railway Company could run without having to use the Launceston Branch of the Great Western Railway Company, that a proper Station was provided at Saint Budeaux.  That was opened in 1890  and it may be significant that it was named Saint Budeaux for Saltash Station as there still was nothing at Saint Budeaux beyond the Parish Church, at what was later called Higher Saint Budeaux, the Ordnance Depot at Bull Point and the Saltash Ferry: it was meant as an access point for the Borough of Saltash rather than for the local, poor population of Saint Budeaux.

However, once the Railway was open other people had other ideas.  One of them, Mr Joseph Striplin, originally from the Parish of Saint Dominick, in Cornwall, but in 1891 recorded as a gardener living at Saltash Passage, bought a plot of land opposite the entrance to the Station and had erected the Trelawny Hotel.  The Hotel was open for business by the end of 1891.  The Ordnance Survey for 1892 shows four smaller properties to the south of the Hotel in what was to become Yeoman's Terrace, Wolseley Road.  By the 1912 Survey they had grown to 15 houses with three more larger blocks on the corner of Moor Lane.  Only fourteen of these buildings were to constitute Yeoman's terrace, the remaining four becoming Cecil Terrace.  There were also four buildings to the north of the Trelawny Hotel, which were to become Tudor Terrace.

In 1914 Mrs Priscilla Striplin, the widow of Mr Joseph Striplin, was living at number 2 Yeoman's Terrace, between bootmaker Mr John Truscott at number 1 and hairdresser Mr T Occleshaw at number 3.  A grocer by the name of Mr Stephen Dyer was at number 5, a jeweller by the name of Mr W Proctor was at number 6, and stationer Mr A M Menheneott at number 7.  Number 8 was occupied by Mrs Pope, draper, number 9 by Mr William G Stephens, butcher, and a branch of  the Devonport Free Library occupied number 10.

The identity of the Mr Yeoman who gave his name to the terrace has not yet been identified.