Local Studies

Whiddon Down community page Whiddon Down is located within West Devon 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 Whiddon Down 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 77/12 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 77SE The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX691925. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX69SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area. Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
Creator:	Devon Library and Information Services
Title:	Whiddon Down community page
Imprint:	Exeter : Devon Library and Information Services
Date:	2004
Format:	Web page : HTML
Series:	Devon community web pages ; GAZWHI3
Ref. no.:	WEB GAZWHI3
Coverage:	Devon . Whiddon Down . History . Web pages

Last Updated:	09/02/2005

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