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Saint Budeaux is located within Plymouth local authority area. Historically it formed part of Roborough Hundred. It falls within Plymouth 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 644 in 1801 6291 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website.

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 below is of the Saint Budeaux 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 117/15 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 117SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX445585. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX45NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 108, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201. Geological sheet 348 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Saint Budeaux 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), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

SAINT BUDEAUX, N. of Devonport, is now completely engulfed in suburban Plymouth. The parish church (St. Budoc) was rebuilt in 1563 "in the Gothic style on a new site which commands fine views of the river and the Cornish bank. The old site was somewhere by the shore of the creek near Budshead, and was perhaps the landing place of the Celtic saint Budoc in the 6th or 7th century.There are considerable traces of the old mansion of the Budsheads here. The whole creek is beautiful and full of feeling, associated as it is with many of the early saints, Indract, Dominic, Budoc, and all their company (see TAMERTON FOLIOT also). The present church is chiefly of interest for its associations with Sir Francis Drake who was married here to Mary Newman in 1569, and with Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1566?- 1647). He was governor of Plymouth, became interested in colonisation, and formed two companies which received grants of land in New England. He founded the settlement of New Plymouth in 1628, and was appointed first governor of Maine in 1635. He died in 1647 and his table monument is here.