In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Oreston like this:
ORESTON, a village in Plymstock parish, Devon; on Plymouth sound, 2 miles S S E of Plymouth. It is a large place; had a battery of the royalists in the civilwars of Charles I.; and has now a post-office under Plymouth, ship-building yards, and Independent and Wesleyan chapels. Quarries adjacent to it furnished all thelimestone employed in the construction of Plymouthbreakwater; and they now exhibit a remarkable extent of ground, shivered into broken cliffs and cumbrousdebris. ...
Many bones of hyenas, elephants, rhinoceroses, wolves, deer, and other animals of warmer climates thanthat of England, were found in fissures during the progress of quarrying; and the animals are supposed to havefallen into cracks of the rocks, and to have, in course oftime, become inhumed by dis integrations from the sides of the cracks, and by driftings of soil from above.
Oreston through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Oreston, in Plymouth and Devon | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21579
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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