Selkirk Place

One of a small group of Plymouth streets - off the eastern end of Budshead Road and reaching out towards Crownhill Road - named after Scottish towns.

These early sixties' streets include Berwick Avenue, Dingwall Avenue, Elgin Crescent and Kirkwall Road - which was formerly linked to Rothesay Gardens and Dumfries Avenue. Selkirk is the county town of Selkirkshire, on the banks of the Ettrick, 38 miles from Edinburgh.

The name itself has another connection locally in that Alexander Selkirk, the man whose adventures inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, lived at Oreston for a while. Indeed Selkirk married Frances Candish a pub landlady there in 1720, the year after Defoe's book was published.