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369:(1758–1839), the owner of the estate in 1810 when it was stated of his inheritance of Stoke Damerel and Mount Wise: "The value of this property has probably increased as much as that of any landed property of its extent in the kingdom". The population of the parish of Stoke Damerel, largely co-terminous with the manor, had increased from 3,361 in 1733 to 23,747 in 1800. The 5th Baronet's land in Stoke Damerel included the town of "Plymouth Dock", which he still owned in 1810, having sold to the government prior to that date the site of the Royal Dock Yard and the lines of military defence surrounding the town of "Plymouth Dock", ("
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the former naval cricket pitch and pavilion and the nuclear bunker converted to a 50,000 sq ft data storage centre. The development advisor stated: "We are not trying to build a city centre development; we will be creating a waterside village". The new buildings were planned to have a "Georgian-inspired feel" with
Admiralty House retained "as the figurehead of the scheme". Phase one ended in 2012, but sales of the new properties were slow due to the continued effects of the 2008 global recession.
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of the structure was demolished, but many relics survive such as the external walls, semi-circular metal racer rails for the guns, World War II barage balloon anchoring rings, ammunition recesses and iron rings for manoeuvring the heavy guns. In 1998 a 40-metre-high (130 ft) mast was built, with circular viewing platform for recreational use by visitors, giving panoramic views, most notably westward to the Royal
William Yard.
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507:(1758–1839), due to its strategic location, and became the Royal Navy's Maritime Headquarters. In the 19th-century it became the home of the Plymouth Garrison. The estate of Mount Wise was used by the Admiralty for about 200 years until it was abandoned in 2004 and was sold in 2006 by the Defence Estates for £5.5million. Security guards stop vandals from trespassing in the bunker buildings.
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with stone walls was built on Mount Wise in the 1770s, forming an emplacement designed to house guns for the purpose of defending the Royal
Dockyard. In 1806 a semaphore signalling station was built within it, the last of a series of 32 linking Plymouth with the Admiralty in London. In the 1960s much
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In 2011 the estate of Mount Wise comprising 28 acres of land started its phase one development as "The
Village by the Sea", a residential area with 469 new houses, Admiralty House converted into a 21-bed "boutique hotel", 32,000 sq ft of offices, a 4,500 sq ft convenience store, the restoration of
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having ended, the
Laboratory had been reduced to a skeleton staff of five. In 1828, the Ordnance Board decided to close the Mount Wise Laboratory, citing the distance that had to be covered each day by the powder hoys that supplied the Laboratory with gunpowder from
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Mount Wise indicated with yellow arrow on an 1851 map of
Plymouth. The Royal Dockyard is to the immediate west (left), the whole complex being surrounded on the land side (north and east) by the "Devonport Dock Lines", a defensive wall visible on the
187:"Hee hath bwilded heere, uppon an advanced ground a newe howse for his pleasure & named it Mount Wise, where Thomas (Wise) Esqr. his sonne now dwelleth, w(hi)ch hath married (Mary), daughter of Edward Lord Chichester, Vicont of Cairfergus".
258:(1602-1676). Edward Wise (1632-1675) was predeceased by both his childless sons, and his sole heiress became his only daughter Arabella Wise, who married Edmund Tremayne (1649-1698) of
791:, Names of the Noblemen and Principal Gentlemen in the County of Devon, their Seats and Parishes at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 1810, published in 1811 edition of
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441:. To the north, it faced the southernmost of the barracks (St George's Square) across a large parade ground; to the south, it was given a large garden extending towards the sea.
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With the
Devonport Lines protecting the Dockyard from landward attack, Mount Wise provided the key vantage point for defending against an attack from the sea. An octagonal
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The second phase of the development was due for completion in
September 2015. Mount Wise House has been turned into offices, not the hotel as planned in phase one.
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The defensive lines were in place by the mid-18th century. A large number of soldiers was required to man the defences; to house them, a series of square
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in Devon. He much beautified his principal seat of
Sydenham House, and added such height and such a great amount of granite to it that his contemporary
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twice in 1640. He named it "Mount Wise" following a common tradition shared by several estates particularly on the south coast of Devon, for example
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477:. By 1834 the Laboratory buildings had been converted into barracks accommodation and they remained in military use well into the 20th century.
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of Stoke
Damerel. Thomas Wise also inherited from his wife the estates of Staddiscombe, Halgewell, Walford and Stoddon.
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now containing a 40 m high mast erected in 1998 with circular viewing platform for recreational visitors, and statue of
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174:(d.1640) remarked: "the very foundation is ready to reel under the burthen". His contemporary the Devon historian Sir
429:) on Mount Wise: built in 1789–93, it initially served as home and headquarters of the military Governor of Plymouth.
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Shortly before 1810 the estate together with the site of the Royal Dockyard was purchased by the Admiralty from
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84:. Until 2004 it was a headquarters for senior Admiralty staff and was inaccessible to the public.
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were produced on Mount Wise and hundreds of men and boys were employed there; by the 1820s, the
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in 1690, a manor house known as Mount Wise was the only significant structure in the area.
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Residence of Col. William II Gould (1615-1644) (No date given for his governorship in
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In the late 18th century, at the height of fears of a French invasion following the
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from June 1660 to September 1668. Stoke Damerel and Mount Wise passed to his son
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49:. Behind the low white wall in the foreground is a series of small swimming pools
354:(1696–1744) by his wife Catherine Morice, sister and in her issue co-heoress of
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795:(d.1640), Survey of Devon, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.3) father of
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was set up on Mount Wise, just west of the redoubt, in buildings designed by
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in the parliaments of King Charles of 1625, 1626 and 1628 to 1629, and for
178:(d.1635) remarked as follows concerning the manor of Stoke Damerel and Sir
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Arming the Fleet: The Development of the Royal Ordnance Yards 1770-1945
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and situated about one mile west of the historic centre of the city of
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572:(d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon,
437:(1789), a large house was built on Mount Wise to house the military
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.732, pedigree of Tremayne
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637:"DEVONPORT CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL & MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS"
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Plymouth's £13.5m Phase Two Mount Wise housing set for completion
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742:(c.1605-1641), MP, who married Lady Mary Chichester, daughter of
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was built around the perimeter in the late 1750s and early '60s.
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670:, (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the
324:(1726–1772), son of his sister Catherine Morice and her husband
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.791, pedigree of Wise
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.791, pedigree of Wise
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of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.344-6, pedigree of
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305:(c. 1628–1690), who in turn was succeeded by his second son
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See photographs of interiors of derelict naval buildings at
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Pole, p.332, who identifies the builder as the father of
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The mansion house known as Mount Wise was built by Sir
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37:(distant right), commemorating the explorer Captain
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The Village by the Sea, Mount Wise, Plymouth, Devon
1006:Angus Macdonald, Development Advisor, Devon Life,
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464:ammunition. Between 1806 and 1814 some 70,000,000
56:is a historic estate situated within the historic
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108:Arms of Wise of Sydenham and Mount Wise:
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250:(1632-1675) of Sydenham, thrice MP for
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978:Mount Wise Navy Bunker Finally Busted
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922:"Hidden Plymouth: Mount Wise Redoubt"
550:(far right, partly obscured by trees)
342:Ermine, on a cross sable five bezants
309:(c. 1681–1726). The latter's son was
499:(established at Mount Wise in 1810).
280:Gules, a lion rampant reguardant or
199:of Carrickfergus in Ireland and of
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1018:Plymouth Herald, August 05, 2015,
963:Plymouth Herald, August 05, 2015,
719:modern: Staddiscombe in Plymstock
576:(ed.), London, 1791, p. 332,
92:Prior to the establishment of the
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303:Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet
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505:Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet
402:Mount Wise Fort, Plymouth Dock
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367:Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet
352:Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet
348:Sir John St Aubyn, 4th Baronet
326:Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet
322:Sir John St Aubyn, 4th Baronet
243:, Mount Gold (Plymouth), etc.
110:Sable, three chevronels ermine
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709:Pole, p.325, "Stottescombe"
574:Sir John-William de la Pole
487:Admiralty House, Mount Wise
444:In 1804 an offshoot of the
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860:Poulton-Smith, Anthony,
511:Return to civilian usage
862:South Devon Place Names
404:, by William Hay, 1780.
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797:John Carpenter Garnier
773:Arthur Howe Holdsworth
609:The Village by the Sea
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856:Governor of Plymouth
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840:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.
698:Heralds' Visitations
694:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.
672:Heralds' Visitations
668:Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.
439:Governor of Plymouth
371:Devonport Dock Lines
299:Lord of the Treasury
215:in Cornwall and for
209:Member of Parliament
164:Member of Parliament
538:Mount Wise and the
39:Robert Falcon Scott
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570:Pole, Sir William
458:Board of Ordnance
435:French Revolution
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740:Thomas Wise
729:Pole, p.325
664:regnal date
649:22 February
450:Lewis Wyatt
363: 1707
318: 1707
248:Edward Wise
241:Mount Boone
217:Bere Alston
193:Thomas Wise
180:Thomas Wise
168:Bere Alston
152:Thomas Wise
1031:Categories
854:, Exeter,
593:References
466:cartridges
462:small-arms
291:Werrington
260:Collacombe
252:Okehampton
213:Callington
54:Mount Wise
47:South Pole
43:Royal Navy
201:Eggesford
141:Plymstock
66:Devonport
33:atop the
858:in 1644(
769:Townstal
454:Woolwich
392:barracks
332:St Aubyn
264:Lamerton
129:Marystow
125:Sydenham
80:and the
70:Plymouth
564:Sources
410:redoubt
233:Musbury
27:Redoubt
475:Keyham
297:and a
270:Morice
172:Risdon
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221:Devon
133:Devon
117:manor
62:manor
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