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standing on the hill above the lime kiln at Salt Mill 

 Quay. It was also the only road from the town to 

 Charleton, Frogmore, Chillington, Stokenham, and Torcross; 

 consequently there was a large traffic over this street, and 

 it was considered an excellent place of business. 



The proposed deviation of the traffic from Barrack 

 Street, by a road over Dodbrooke Quay, to Barrack Lane, 

 was the occasion of much consternation among the shop- 

 keepers residing in Barrack Street. [This led to the 

 composition and circulation of some rhymes, by an anony- 

 mous author, but as they number seventeen stanzas, their 

 insertion here is scarcely desirable]. 



The land from the lime kiln at Salt Mill Quay to 

 Mr. William Date's shipbuilding yard was, about 1804, 

 previously to the communication being made by the road 

 between Dodbrooke and Salt Mill Quays, taken in from 

 the creek by the Lord of the Manor of Dodbrooke. 



It formed a beautiful level piece of ground of several 

 acres in extent, and was dedicated by the Lord of the 

 Manor to the public as a promenade and recreation 

 ground. 



The only erection then on it was a small house, now 

 part of the New Quay Inn, then used as an officer's 

 bathing-house. 



The promenade ground continued for many years to be 

 used by the inhabitants of the town, without let or 

 hindrance. 



In the year 1829, the Kingsbridge and Dartmouth 

 Turnpike Trust obtained an Act of Parliament to make 

 a turnpike road over it to Charleton, and thence to Dart- 

 mouth: and from that time the public have been confined 

 within the walls of the turnpike road, and numerous 



