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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MORICE, or MORICE-Town, a suburb of Devonport, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Stoke-Damerel district, Devon. The suburb lies on the NW of Devonport-proper, beyond the lines with which the town and arsenal are surrounded; is included within Devenport borough; took its name from the Morices, who held the manor of Stoke-Damerel from 1677 till 1749; has wharves on a creek of the Hamoaze, Keyham steam-basin, a blockhouse, a powder magazine, and a large brewery; and is inhabited chiefly by persons employed in the docks, or connected with them.—The chapelry bears the name of St. James-the-Great, and was constituted in 1846. Pop. in 1861,6,655. Houses, 596. The living a p. curacy in the diocese of Exeter. Valne, £300. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is noticed in the article DEVoNPoRT. A Bible Christian chapel, with 500 sittings, and an adjoining school-room with capacity for 200 children, were built in 1865.-The subdistrict is much larger than the chapelry. Pop. in 1851, 9,372; in 1861,14,089. Houses, 838.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a suburb of Devonport, a chapelry, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Devonport RegD/PLPar/Inc Devon AncC |
| Place names: | MORICE | MORICE OR MORICE TOWN | MORICE TOWN |
| Place: | Morice |
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