Millbridge is a small neighbourhood of Plymouth on the boundary of what used to be the towns of Plymouth and Devonport. The village lies to the north of the bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church. It derives its name from the old toll bridge (adjacent to a naval saw mill) across the creek between Eldad Hill and Molesworth Road, at one time the principle link between Plymouth and Devonport. The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park which was officially opened in 1903. The remainder of the creek to the west of millbridge, upto Stonehouse Bridge and Pool, was filled in and by 1972 the whole area and been developed as football pitches
Devonport Dockyard [1] [1], located in the city of Plymouth, England in the county of Devon is the largest naval base in Western Europe.
Plymouth was extensively blitzed during WWII, to the extent that approximately twice the amount of housing stock that existed prior to the war was destroyed during it (as a consequence of rebuilt houses being successively hit).
Plymouth was also one of the principal staging posts for the Normandy landings in June 1944.
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