The place search will look for works relating to a particular locality. There are entries for the region (Westcountry), counties, parishes and major geographical features such as rivers or named regions (e.g. Dartmoor, South Hams).
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Some special topographical lists, indexes and web pages
A Devon gazetteer: historical data on 500 localities.
Web resources on individual communities: a guide to selected websites.
Census statistics 1801-2001: an alphabetical table of population totals.
Newspapers: developed from the Bibliography of British newspapers with details of microfilms. Arranged by place of publication.
Directories: listed by county, town and date with library holdings.
Etched on Devon's memory: topographical prints of Devon 1660-1870, with place search
Playbills: a handlist of those held in the Westcountry Studies Library, arranged by place
Historical mapping: for 1575, 1765 and 1827, with map search.
Single sheet maps: a list of Westcountry Studies holdings, arranged by place and date
Maps in series: a list of Westcountry Studies holdings
Devon and Cornwall Record Society, a handlist of the collections in the Westcountry Studies Library (includes parish register holdings)
Monumental inscriptions: a listing of transcriptions and other works in topographical order
Millennium community histories a selective handlist.
The Devon book and paper trades a biographical dictionary (arranged by place)
Parish packs of historical information in branch libraries
Devon bibliography (arranged by place):
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002,
2003,
2004
Articles from a selection of the major periodicals and volumes of essays relating to Devon and its region have been included on the database. The titles represented so far are:
| Dartmoor magazine | Nos 1-39 | 1985-1995 |
| Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries | 1:1-8:8 | 1900-1915 |
| - ditto - | 33:1-37:8 | 1974-1995 |
| Devon Archaeological Society Transactions | Vol. 37-51 | 1979-1993 |
| Devon documents / ed. Todd Gray | 1 vol. | 1996 |
| Devon historian | Nos 1-50 | 1970-1995 |
| Devon life | Vol 1-10 | 1965-1973 |
| Devonshire Association Transactions | Vol 34-126 | 1902-1994 |
| Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Transactions | 1:1-3:5 | 1843-1933 |
| Exeter papers in economic history | 1-17 | 1968-1987 |
| Tudor and Stuart Devon / ed. Todd Gray | 1 vol. | 1992 |
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