Wonford
Wonford is located within Exeter local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred.
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 Wonford 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 80/7,11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 80NE,SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX936919. 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.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
WONFORD and North Week [in the parish of Thornbury]were Domesday manors, and Bagbeare gave its name to a family who lived here for some centuries.
