Hamoaze

The first element is thought to refer to specifically to Ham in the parish of Weston Peverel, now a suburb of Plymouth (whose name in turn came from the Old English word hamm, meaning "water-meadow, land in the bend of a river").The name originally probably applied only to a creek running past Ham, which perhaps consisted of mud-banks at low tide, north of the present-day Devonport Dockyard.[1] The Hamoaze flows past Devonport Dockyard, which is one of three major bases of the Royal Navy today.The presence of large numbers of small watercraft is a challenge and hazard to the warships using the naval base and dockyard.[2][3] Settlements on the banks of the Hamoaze are Saltash, Wilcove, Torpoint and Cremyll in Cornwall, as well as Devonport and Plymouth in Devon.