3-046-936 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bird's-eye view of Plymouth, 1872. 'The Engraving presents a bird's-eye view of the towns of Plymouth and Devonport, with Stonehouse, and of Plymouth Sound, with the Hamoaze and Sutton Pool, as seen from an elevated point south of St. Nicholas or Drake's Island, just opposite the Great Western Docks and Pier at Mill Bay...The foreground is composed of part of Mount Edgcumbe Park, to the left; Drake's Island, in the centre; and Mount Batten, to the right. In the middle distance are fully outspread, on the left hand, the dockyards and town of Devonport; then Stonehouse, with the promontory occupied by the Royal William Victualling Yard and its buildings; next these, in the centre, Stonehouse Hill Fort, the Great Western Docks, and Mill Bay; then Plymouth, the West and East Hoe, with the chief edifices in that part of the town, and the South Devon Railway station; lastly, the Citadel, and the inner harbour called Sutton Pool, with the factories and Dartmoor Railway station. The background extends, on the left, to the Saltash tubular bridge of the Cornwall Railway, with a piece of that county in sight; it takes in the Torpoint steam-ferry, Keyham Dockyard, and the line of railway, in rear of the three towns, with the distant hills of Dartmoor'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.