Freemantle Place

As parts of Devonport, Morice Town and Keyham were developed in the second half of the last century, it was common to name new thoroughfares after ships or people with Naval connections.

There are several roads named after former Commanders-in-Chief of plymouth, and Freemantle Place is one of them.

Sir Charles Howe Freemantle had distinguished service which included the Crimean War.

His father, born in 1765, had impressed Nelson in the Mediterranean in 1793 and shared in the glories of Trafalgar in 1805 where he was in command of the Neptune.

Freemantle senior dies in 1819 having carved a reputation for disciplining his men - he developed a system similar to the one taken up by the Navy 60 years later.

EH 2 november 1999