St Budeaux, Devon

Historical Description

Budeaux, St, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands on the Hamoaze estuary, near the Albert Bridge and the Saltash station of the Cornwall railway, 4 miles NW of Plymouth. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Devonport, and a station on the L. & S.W.R. Acreage of civil parish, 2650; population, 2470. The parish includes also Honicknowle and King's Tamerton, and Knacker's-KnowIe and Whitleigh. The manor belonged anciently to the Budocksheds, and an ivy-covered tower of the old manor house remains. Nearly 100 acres of rich land have been reclaimed from the bed of the estuary. A powder magazine was constructed in 1857 at Bull Point. The church and churchyard were strongly fortified in the Civil War by the Royalists, and stormed and taken by the Parliamentarians. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £105. Patron, the Vicar of St Andrew, Plymouth. The church is a neat edifice of 1569, was the marriage-place of Sir Francis Drake, and contains monuments of the Budocksheds and the Gorges. There are also several Church of England mission chapels, as well as two Methodist and a New Connexion one in the parish.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for St Budeaux from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Budeaux, or Budock, St.)

Maps

Online maps of St Budeaux are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Devon online:

• Western Times
• Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
• Western Morning News
• North Devon Journal
• Exeter Flying Post

Villages, Hamlets, &c

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1564, with additions from the earlier visitation of 1531, is online.

The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by Lieutant-Colonel J.L. Vivian, published for the author by Henry S. Eland, Exeter 1895 is online.