Hender's Corner

For the best part of a hundred years now the junction of Mannamead Road and Eggbuckland Road has been known as Hender's Corner and yet the name does not seem to have appeared in any street directory or on any map of Plymouth.

So why is it called Hender's Corner? The answer lies in the fact that up until the thirties there were nurseries here belonging to the Hender family. William Hender had moved out there from Bedford Place in the late 1870s and while having market gardens near this junction may have been sufficient to give name to the area, before it became heavily developed, the real need to name the junction arose when it became the end of the line for the trams that operated out of the depot at Compton.

The nurseries were a little nearer the terminal point than the depot or Compton Village itself and so the logical point of reference became Hender's Nurseries.