Devonport is located within Plymouth local authority area. The population was 23747 in 1801 63917 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. Plymouth Dock was renamed Devonport on 1st January 1824, and absorbed by Plymouth in 1914.

You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Devonport area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX455555. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX45NE, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201.

Illustrations: The image below is of Devonport as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder: