Victoria Park

Time was when Stonehouse Creek, known also as Stoke Damerel Fleet or Deadlake, used to run all the way up to Pennycomequick where it met two streams in one that joined just before flowing under the Houndiscombe Bridge.

The joint action of the tide and these streams was sufficient to power the old mill at Millbridge. In the 1890s however, as Plymouth was undergoing rapid expansion, it was decided that the creek, east of Millbridge, should be in-filled. To accomplish this the rubble and surplus material generated by all the local development was to be dumped in this part of the creek.

From the beginning, it would appear, it was determined that the reclaimed land should be named in honour of the Queen, who by this stage had already spent almost sixty years on the throne. As it transpired however Victoria Park was not finished in time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897, but, by 1905, within four years of the great lady's death, Victoria Park had been completed - and it remains little changed to this day.