Heavitree
Heavitree is located within Exeter local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. It falls within Exeter Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 833 in 1801 7529 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.
A parish history file is held in Pinhoe Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.
Maps: The image here is of the Heavitree area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 80/7 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 80NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX939925. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX99SW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 114, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 325 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Heavitree as included in the Library's illustrations collection. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
The Wonford quarry at Heavitree was drawn upon, apparently for the first time, in 1390. From this date onwards the red sandstone quarries were vigorously worked for ecclesiastical and secular building in Exeter, and also for the repair of the city walls
