Honicknowle

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Honicknowle is an area and ward of the city of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It borders with West Park, Crownhill, Ham, Whitleigh and Pennycross areas of Plymouth. It was previously part of Knackersknowle.

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[edit] General

The UK Census of 2001 revealed that the population stood at 13,795, of which 47.2 per cent were male and 52.8 per cent were female. (Information provided by The City of Plymouth website)

[edit] Education

[edit] Primary Schools

  • Knowle Primary and Chaucer Primary School

[edit] Secondary School

Honicknowle County Secondary Modern School 1952 - about 1989,[demolished].

  • John Kitto Community College <- CLASS <-

[edit] Shopping

There is a small shopping precinct located at Honicknowle Green, which includes a Newsagent, Charity shop, Hairdressers and Convenience store.

In 2001 Tesco acquired the Plymco (Plymouth Co-operative) supermarket in Transit Way (also known as Transit Way Shopping Village), and since the area has seen extensive development including a Mercedes dealership (Now relocated), Lidl and a new Matalan store.

Honicknowle is also within the catchment of both West Park and Crownhill shopping precincts.

[edit] Religion

The majority religion in Honicknowle is Christian.

St. Francis of Assisi church located off Little Dock Lane is closest to Honicknowle Green. There is also a thriving Methodist Church.

There is also a Jehovah's Witnesses hall located in Transit Way.

[edit] Places of interest

At this time, there are no specific places of interest (such as Theatre, Cinema etc) however Honicknowle Green celebrates November 5th or Guy Fawkes night with a traditional bonfire and large fireworks display, most of this display is organised and funded by local citizens. However due to new local restrictions and regulations, there is no longer an annual bonfire.

[edit] Politics

Honicknowle is part of the Plymouth Devonport constituency, which is subject to boundary changes for the 2009/2010 general election. They are thus: northern parts, including St. Budeaux, of the current constituency will become Plymouth Moor View and the rest will join with parts of Plymouth Sutton to form Plymouth Sutton and Devonport.

The seat was won by Alsion Seabeck (Labour party) in the 2005 general election.

Labour Alison Seabeck 18,610 44.3 -14.0

Conservative Richard Cuming 10,509 25.0 -2.1 
Liberal Democrats Judith Jolly 8,000 19.1 +8.3 
UK Independence Bill Wakeham 3,324 7.9 +5.6 
Independent Keith Greene 747 1.8 N/A 
Socialist Labour Rob Hawkins 445 1.1 +0.4 
Respect Tony Staunton 347 0.8 N/A

Majority 8,101 19.3 Turnout 41,982 57.6 +1.0

Labour hold Swing -6.0

It is also David Owen's former seat. Owen was a founder member (one of the Gang of Four, the other three being Baroness Shirley Williams, Lord Roy Jenkins and Lord Bill Rodgers) of the SDP and then broke away to form the real SDP, when the original SDP merged with the Liberals after an electoral pact of four years.