 The area is an assembly point for supporters of Plymouth Argyle Football Club, which is located nearby in Central Park.The pub closed in 2009 and after changing hands many times, has now been converted into student accommodation.The one-time MP for Plymouth and then Plymouth Sutton Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, named a racehorse he bred after this area of Plymouth (as he did many others) and the filly won the 1929 Oaks Stakes.