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Southway, Plymouth — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Buckland Abbey monks walked a route into Plymouth called the South Way, and the housing estate later spread across it took the name Southway.
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Where to stay in Southway
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The estate keeps no hotels. Southway is housing first, a broad suburban spread inside Plymouth, so a visitor who wants a booked room and a choice of them books in the city rather than out here. Church of the Holy Spirit anchors the middle of it.
Looseleigh House and Powisland House are the two older addresses the record keeps, and neither takes guests.
Few places to stay in Southway — most visitors book in Plymouth nearby.
About Southway
What are the main landmarks in Southway?
Three entries, no more. The Church of the Holy Spirit is the one place of worship the record names, and Looseleigh House and Powisland House are the two houses listed beside it on the estate's short register. Buckland Abbey sits off that list.
Its monks gave Southway both the route and the name, though the abbey itself stands beyond the estate's bounds.
What is the history of Southway?
Buckland Abbey monks used a route into Plymouth so regularly that it acquired a name, the South Way, and that name is believed to have passed to the estate later laid across the ground. The derivation is not certain. What the record does state plainly is that Southway grew as a large suburban housing estate within Plymouth, in the English county of Devon.
Looseleigh House carries an older name.
Where is Southway?
Devon's stretch of Plymouth carries this estate, laid over the old walking route the Buckland Abbey monks used into the city. Looseleigh House stands within it.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Southway?
Plymouth: travellers wanting the city's own beds and the South Way line back out to Buckland Abbey.
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Updated September 2026