Editing Hamoaze (section)

==Etymology==
The name first appears as ''ryver of Hamose'' in 1588. The first element is thought to refer to specifically to [[Ham, Plymouth|Ham]] in the parish of [[Weston Peverel]], now a suburb of Plymouth (whose name in turn came from the [[Old English]] word {{lang|ang|hamm}}, meaning "water-meadow, land in the bend of a river"). The second element is thought to derive from Old English {{lang|ang|wāse}} meaning "mud" (as in "ooze"). Thus the name once meant "mud-banks at Ham". 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 [[HMNB Devonport|Devonport Dockyard]]. The name later came to be used for the main channel of the estuary into which the creek drained.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gover |first=J. E. B. |title=The Place-names of Devon |last2=Mawer |first2=A. |last3=Stenton |first3=F. M. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1931–32 |series=English Place-Name Society, 8-9 |volume=1 |location=Cambridge |pages=20, 246}}</ref>