Wikipedia:WikiProject Devon/Resources

Reliable secondary sources provide the core information from which our articles should be written.

• {{cite web

|title=Local Studies Catalogue

|url= http://library-cat.swheritage.org.uk/advanced-search

|website= South West Heritage Trust

}}

::Catalogue of items in the Devon and Somerset Local Studies collection

• {{cite web

|title=Devon Places

|url= http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100180/1.html

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160401202507/http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100180/1.html

|archive-date = 1 April 2016

|website=Devon County Council

}}

::An archive of the former list of all parishes in the county of Devon

• {{cite web

|url= https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV

|title=GENUKI/Devon

|website=GENUKI

}}

::Entry page to a huge quantity of information about Devon. Much of it is provided by volunteers (see [https://www.genuki.org.uk/org/faq#GENUKI FAQ No 1]) so can be of doubtful reliability for our purposes, but it does include many links to reliable sources. Includes a page on [https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/indexpars each civil parish].

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• Transactions of the Devonshire Association.

::147 annual volumes, and counting, all devoted to the county. Most of the volumes up to 1920 are available online: a linked list is on the Association's website [http://www.devonassoc.org.uk/transactions.htm here]. Abstracts for the volumes published since 2004 are on the same page, and the website also hosts a downloadable list of the [http://www.devonassoc.org.uk/transactions-index.pdf titles of all the papers] and a [http://www.devonassoc.org.uk/searchtrans.htm search engine] (which only searches the titles despite sounding as if it searches all the content).

• {{cite book

| last=Hoskins| first=W. G.| authorlink=William George Hoskins

| title=A New Survey of England: Devon

| publisher=Collins| location=London

| year=1954

| isbn=0-7153-5577-5

| page=

}}

::Usually referred to as Hoskins' Devon, this has been reprinted several times. The book consists of two roughly equal parts: a general survey of the county preceding a gazetteer.

• {{Cite book

|last=Harris|first=Helen

|title=A Handbook of Devon Parishes

|publisher=Halsgrove|location=Tiverton

|year=2004

|isbn=1-84114-314-6

|page=

}}

::Basic details of each of Devon's 422 parishes.

• {{cite web

|url=https://www.devon.gov.uk/factsandfigures/about-the-county/maps/

|title=Maps

|publisher=Devon County Council

|accessdate=

}}

::Includes maps of parishes by district and of all parishes. Useful for seeing what's where and what's nearby.

• {{cite book

|title=Domesday Book: 9 – Devon. Parts 1 & 2

|last=Thorn |first=Caroline and Frank

|publisher=Phillimore |location=Chichester

|year=1985

|isbn=0-85033-492-6

|page=

}}

• :Part 1 contains the original Latin DB entries and a translation. Part 2 is an extensive commentary. The page numbering in these volumes is unusual, being related to the section of the DB in which the entry appears.
• :The translation of the text for 33 counties is available on the University of Hull website [https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:461 here], and a slightly updated version of the Part 2 commentary is [https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:535 here] (rtf file).
• {{Cite book

|title=Historical Atlas of South-West England

|last= |first=

|chapter=

|editor=Kain, Roger |editor2=Ravenhill, William

|publisher=University of Exeter Press |location=Exeter |year=1999

|isbn=0-85989-434-7

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Devon and Exeter in the Civil War

|last=Andriette|first=Eugene A

|isbn=0-7153-5256-3|year=1971

|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot

|page=

}}

• {{Cite book

|title=The New Maritime History of Devon Volume 1. From early times to the late eighteenth century

|last=| first =

|chapter=

|editor=Duffy, Michael |display-editors=etal

|publisher=Conway Maritime Press| location=London

|year=1992

|isbn=0-85177-611-6

|page=

}}

• {{Cite book

|title=The New Maritime History of Devon Volume 2. From the late eighteenth century to the present day

|last=| first=

|chapter=

|editor=Duffy, Michael |display-editors=etal

|publisher=Conway Maritime Press| location=London

|year=1994

|isbn=0-85177-633-7

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Making Anglo-Saxon Devon

|last=Higham| first=Robert

|publisher=The Mint Press| location=Exeter

|year=2008

|isbn=978-1-903356-57-9

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Security and Defence in South-west England before 1800

|last=Higham|first=Robert

|series=Exeter Studies in History|publisher=University of Exeter

|year=1987

|isbn=0-85989-209-3

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

| title=Aspects of Devon History

| last=Sellman| first=R. R.

| publisher=Devon Books| location=Exeter

| year=1985

| isbn=0-86114-756-1

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

| title=A History of Devon

| last=Stanes| first=Robin

| publisher=Phillimore

| location=Chichester

| year=2000

| edition=2nd

| isbn=1-86077-092-4

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|last=Todd|first=Malcolm|authorlink=Malcolm Todd

|title=The South West to AD 1000

|series=A Regional History of England

|publisher=Longman|year=1987

|isbn=0-582-49274-2

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

| title=A History of Devonshire

| last=Worth| first=R. N.

| publisher=Elliot Stock| location=London

| year=1895

|page=

}}

• :Rather old now, but may contain that elusive snippet!
• Volumes of The Devon Historian, the journal of the Devon History Society.
• :As of 2020, many (all?) of these up to vol. 87 (2018) are available online at [https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/journal/ this page] (via the JOURNAL tab). An index to vols. 1 to 76 is [https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/journal/volumes-1-76/ here], and a less comprehensive index, but including links to abstracts, for vol. 77 on is [https://www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/journal/from-volume-77/ here].

• {{cite book

|title=The Buildings of England: Devon

|author=Cherry, Bridget |author2=Pevsner, Nikolaus

|publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth

|year=1989

|isbn=0-14-071050-7

|page=

}}

• :The standard reference, reprinted several times.

• {{cite book

|title=England's Landscape. The South West

|last=|first=

|chapter=

|editor=Roger Kain

|publisher=Collins| location=London

|year=2006

|isbn=9-78-0-00-715572-9

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Devon Roads - an illustrated survey of the development and management of Devon's highway network

|last=Hawkins|first=Michael

|publisher=Devon Books|location=Exeter|year=1988

|isbn=0-86114-817-7

|page=

}}

• {{Cite book

|title=The Geology of Devon

|last1=Durrance| first1=E. M.|last2=Laming|first2= D. J.

|publisher=University of Exeter

|year=1982

|isbn=0-85989-247-6

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Devon and Somerset Mines: Metalliferous and Associated Minerals 1845-1913

|last1=Burt| first1=Roger| last2=Waite| first2=Peter| last3=Burnley |first3=Ray

|publisher=University of Exeter| year=1984

|isbn=0-85989-201-8

|page=

}}

• {{Cite journal

|journal=English Place-Name Society. Vol Viii. Parts I and II.

|title=The Place-Names of Devon

|author=Gover, J.E.B. |author2=Mawer, A. |author3=Stenton, F.M

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|year=1931

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names

|last=Watts|first=Victor

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|edition=1st paperback|year=2010

|isbn=978-0-521-16855-7

|page=

}}

:::Although not specific to Devon, this is the latest research to be published. It should ideally be consulted in case it updates the ageing Gover, Mawer and Stenton, though it is obviously not as comprehensive.

• {{cite book

| title=Devon Families

| last=Lauder| first=Rosemary

| year=2002| publisher=Halsgrove| location=Tiverton

| isbn=1-84114-140-2

|page=

}}

::26 chapters on ancient families that are still extant.

• {{cite book

|editor=Vivian, J. L.

|editor-link=John Lambrick Vivian

|title=The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. With additions by Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Vivian.

|publisher=Henry S. Eland |location=Exeter

|year=1895

|url=

|page=

}}

::Available online at [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GmqlIibS95IC Google books] (in USA only due to Google's restrictive copyright policy). Rather poor copies of a microfilmed copy of the book are available from Brigham Young University, split into two volumes: [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE98635 vol 1 (A–G)], [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE186302 vol 2 (H–Z)].

::Also available via HathiTrust, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917;view=1up;seq=9 here], both with an online viewer and, through a link in the LH column, as a (700Mb!) OCR'ed pdf download. Thanks to User:Noswall59 for finding this!

• {{cite web

|url= http://churchmonumentssociety.org/Devon_1.html

|title=County Guides – Devon

|work=The Church Monuments Society

|accessdate=

}}

::Photographs and details of church monuments throughout the county. Work in progress. This appears to be a reliable source, though you wouldn't think it from the design of these pages!

• {{cite book

|title=Devon at Work: Past and Present

|last=Minchington|first=Walter

|year=1974|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbot

|isbn=0-7153-6389-1

|page=

}}

• {{cite book

|title=Devon Topographical Prints 1660-1870. A Catalogue and Guide

|last=Somers Cocks|first=J. V.

|publisher=Devon Library Services|location=Exeter|year=1977

|isbn=0-86114-001-X

|page=

}}

• For those with a Devon library card, the library service provides some general reference material online [https://www.devonlibraries.org.uk/web/arena/referenceonline here]. Includes the latest ODNB which can be accessed from any computer. There are also some other sources such as Ancestry Library Edition and Access to Research which can only be accessed from a library computer. Most other county library services in England provide similar facilities.

These are around 200 years old or more, so while they can provide information that has not been published more recently, it is recommended to use them with discretion and always attribute any statements taken from them (e.g. "Risdon says ...").

• {{cite book

|title=The chorographical description or survey of the county of Devon

|last=Risdon| first=Tristram| authorlink=Tristram Risdon

|editor=

|publisher=Printed for Rees and Curtis| location=London| year=1811

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ

|page=

}}

::This work was completed in around 1632 but not fully published until 1811: this edition contains considerable additions by the (unnamed) editors. Available online at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w_0GAAAAQAAJ Google books]. A facsimile reprint was published by Porcupines of Barnstaple in 1970.

• {{cite book

|title=Magna Britannia. Volume the Sixth, containing Devonshire. 2 vols.

|last1=Lysons|first1=Daniel|authorlink1=Daniel Lysons

|last2=Lysons|first2=Samuel|authorlink2=Samuel Lysons

|year=1822

|publisher=Thomas Cadell|location=London

|page=

}}

:: A transcription is online at {{cite web

|url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=406

|title=Magna Britannia: volume 6 – Devonshire

|work=British History Online

|accessdate=

}}

• {{cite book

|last=Polwhele |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Polwhele

|title=The History of Devonshire. 3 volumes.

|publisher= |location=

|year=1793–1806

|url=

|page=

}}

::As of 2020 this work is still not available online – I suspect the books are too large for any automated scanners! A facsimile reprint was published in 1977 by Kohler and Coombes of Dorking.

::Polwhele projected an earlier series of five volumes of Historical Views of Devonshire, but only the first volume (1793) was published, dealing with "The British Period from the first settlements in Danmonium to the arrival of Julius Caesar". This is available online at [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Rm9bAAAAQAAJ Google Books].

• Thomas Moore (1829–36). History of Devonshire (3 vols). [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_History_of_Devonshire.html?id=uWPSAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y Volume 1], [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_History_of_Devonshire_from_the_Earli.html?id=_PIGAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y Volume 2]. Volume 3 does not seem to be available online.

• Sir William Pole (1791). Collections towards a description of the county of Devon.

::Based on Pole's collection of manuscripts (he died in 1635) and published by a descendant.

• {{cite book| title = A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX with a Pedigree of most of its Gentry| last = Westcote | first = Thomas | year = 1845| editor = George Oliver|editor2= Pitman Jones|url =https://archive.org/details/viewofdevonshire00west/page/n12|authorlink=Thomas Westcote}}.

:: Written about 1630 but not published until much later.

• {{cite book

|title=Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon

|last=Prince|first=John|authorlink=John Prince (Totnes)

|url=http://archive.org/details/danmoniioriental00prin

|year=1810

|publisher=Rees & Curtis

|page=

}}

::First published in 1701 it consists of biographies of the 191 people that Prince considered the most "illustrious" in the history of Devon. Available online at [https://archive.org/details/danmoniioriental00prin archive.org]

Primary source material should be used with care in articles, and should never form the majority of cited references - secondary sources should be used in preference wherever possible.

• {{cite web

|url= http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp

|title=Historical Directories: Find by Location

|publisher=University of Leicester

|accessdate=

}}

::Choose Devon from the dropdown or click on the map. At the time of writing there are page scans of 35 directories here. Although the directory information is primary source material, they often contain summaries of the towns and villages into which the entries are divided.

• {{cite web

|url= http://www.foda.org.uk/main/transcripts.htm

|title=Document transcripts and indexes

|work=Friends of Devon Archives

|accessdate=

}}

::Transcripts of some 18th century documents such as episcopal visitation returns, and indexes to 19th century tithe apportionments, etc.

• {{cite web

|url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue/south-west

|title=British History Online - South West

|work=British History Online

|accessdate=

}}

::Lots of material here though much of it isn't relevant to Devon and some of it requires payment.

• Maxted, Ian: In Pursuit of Devon's History (1997)
• bibliographies
• web searches
• etc.

The list was developed from an idea discussed on User:Lobsterthermidor's [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lobsterthermidor&oldid=581031211#Other_Devon_articles talk page] in July 2013.

Category:WikiProject Devon