West Park

Plymouth has many Park Roads and Lanes, the park in this sense simply referring to an enclosed piece of land or field.

In the middle of the nineteenth century West Park Lane and Coombe Park Lane ran roughly parallel to each other from St. Budeaux towards Honicknowle - there was no development along either of them, just fields. West Park Terrace to the north of the old quarry, between the two lanes had appeared by the turn of the century, although somewhat incongruously it was in Coombe Park Lane, not West Park Lane.

Clearly it was an indication of what was to come, as over the years the area came to be known as West Park rather Coombe Park. A situation that was quite possibly helped by the fact that when one of the new houses there in Crownhill Road there was converted to a shop and off-licence by Mr & Mrs Davis, in 1934, the name and hence new sign they gave it was the "West Park Off Licence".