Eggbuckland is located within Plymouth local authority area. Historically it formed part of Roborough Hundred. It falls within Plympton 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 711 in 1801 2689 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 136 adult males signed the Protestation returns.

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 Eggbuckland 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 118/13,124/1 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 118SW,124NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX505578. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX55NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 108, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 201. Geological sheet 349 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Eggbuckland as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. 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:

EGG BUCKLAND parish on the NE. side of Plymouth is partly occupied by the military defences of the town and port. The church (St. Erasmus) has a good 14th century tower and S. porch, but was otherwise rebuilt in 1864. Widey Court, about 1 m. NW., was the headquarters of Prince Maurice when he besieged Plymouth in 1643, and was visited by the king in September 1644. The house is now neglected and dilapidated.