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Blackboy Road, Exeter

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From Sidwell Street to junction of Pinhoe Road, Polsloe Road and Mount Pleasant Road

Sometimes called Bath Road

The road is named after the Black Boy Inn which used to stand in the road. Royalists met at the inn, plotting the overthrow of Oliver Cromwell, and named it the after the future King Charles II, whose mother, Queen Henrietta Maria nicknamed him the 'Blackboy'.

1806 Mention of a brickworks in Black Boy Road in the parish of St. Sidwell.[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Exeter Flying Post - Thursday 30 October 1806
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