DEVON BOOKS

The Devon books review that follows is taken from books that I possess.
For a much more comprehensive list of material, please select
Devon Bibliography.
Also, see a list of currently available books.

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Title/
ISBN
Author/
Publisher/
Year
Chapters Comment
Aspects of Devon History
(71 pages)
0-86114-756-1
R.R. Sellman
Devon Books
1962
(Rev 1985)
*The Stone Age and Bronze Age
*The Iron Age
*Devon in the Roman Period
*Saxon Period
*Braunton Great Field
*Domesday Devon
*Devon Place-names
*Religious Houses
*The Middle Ages
*The Civil War in Devon
*Plymouth Citadel
*Turnpike Roads & Coaching
*Canals
*Railways
*Parliamentary Represent'n
*The Poor Law
*19th c. Elementary Schools
*Pupulation Growth since 1801
A general, and gentle, introduction
to Devon History.
Barnstaple - Town on the Taw
(174 pages)
0-85033-488-8
Lois Lamplugh
Phillimore
1983
*Saxon Beginnings
*Norman Borough & its Lords
*Merchants, Mayors & Malefactors
*Governing the Town, 1350-1450
*Early Tudor Period
*A Town Clerk's Diary, 1586-1608
*Elizabethan & Jacobean times
*The Civil War
*The Late 17th Century
*18th Century Improvements
*The Late Georgian Age
*Occupations & Good Works
*Late Victorian Times
*Edwardian Days to 1918
*The 20s and a Celebration
*A list of the mayors
Effectively, the only history
of the town.
An interesting coverage.
Braunton
(125 pages)
0946-290-20-2
Tina Gaydon
Badger Books
1989.
*Memories of Braunton
*St. Brannock
*Development of a Village
*The Manors
*The Great Field
*The Marshes
*Velator and its Shipping
*Braunton Burrows
*RAF Chivenor
*The Americans in Braunton
*The Changing face of Braunton
A small book with good
photos. Good value.
Devon
(617 pages)
0-86114-879-7
W.G. Hoskyns
Devon Books
1954
Rev. 1992
*General Description
*Prehistoric & Celtic Devon
*The English Settlement
*The Economic Background
*The Land
*The Towns
*Industry & Trade
*Communications
*Population
*Political & Military History
*Maritime History
*Ecclesiastical History
*Social History
*Building & Building Materials
*Literature & The Arts
*The Country To-day
An exhaustive work with description
of all towns & villages.
Devonshire Studies
(470 pages)
Pre-ISBN.
W.G. Hoskins & H.P.R. Finberg
Jonathan Cape
1952
*The Making of a Boundary
*Childe's Tomb
*Uffculme
*Cholwich (family study)
*Galsworthy (family study)
*Sokespitch (family study)
*Traymill
*Some Old Devon Bartons
*Morwell
*Borough of Tavistock
*The Tragicomedy of Abbot Bonus
*The Wealth of Medieval Devon
*A Sheaf of Documents
*The Open Field in Devon
*The Making of the Agrarian Land
*The Estates of the Carolingians
*A Chapter of Religious History
*A Sheaf of Modern Documents
*The Farm-Labourer thru 400 years
Out of print.
An important study.
Family Servants & Visitors
(167 pages)
0-86094-185-X
Mary Bouquet
Geo Books
1985.
Five chapters on an examination of farm-
life in the 19th & 20th centuries.

Many plates, maps, figures,
graphs and tables.
If anything, scientifically
written, but includes good
anecdotes.
Loyalty and Locality
(330 pages)
0-85989-428-2
Mark Stoyle
Uni. of Exeter Press
1994.
Pt.1 : The Context
Pt.2 : Patterns of Allegiance
Pt.3 : Determinants of Allegiance
Pt.4 : The National Picture
Many maps and plates.
A good study of the
Civil War in Devon.
My North Devon
of Myth & Mystery
(76 pages)
0-946290-15-6
Tina Gaydon
Badger Books
1987.
A collection of tales and
superstitions...and some facts.
Towards Quebec
(72 pages)
0-11-290335-5
Ann Giffard
H.M.S.O.
1981.
*Conditions at Home
*The Atlantic Crossing
*Uncle Bailey's Journal
*Log Kept by Wm. Gliddon
*A New Life in the Wilderness
With diary & log of the trip
a wonderful insight into mid-19th c.
emmigration. The NDRO has a copy.
Tudor & Stuart Devon
(230 pages)
0-85989-384-7
(Essays)
Uni. of Exeter Press
1992.
*Katherine Courtenay, 1479-1527
*Four Devon Stanneries
*Locality & Parliament
*Landed Society
*N. Devon Maritime Enterprise
*English Wine Imports
*Fishing & the Commercial World
*The Clergy in Devon
Well worth a study.
Other DEVON material:
Title/
ISBN
Author/
Publisher/
Year
Of Church-Reves and of Testamentes
(Elizabethan Court Archives)
1-871822-44-0
Peter Christie
Devon F.H.S.
1994.
North Devon Coast
(In Old Photographs)
0-86299-653-8
Beryl Yates
Alan Sutton
1989.
North Devon Country
(In Old Photographs)
Part 1: 0-86299-652-X
Part 2: 0-86299-727-5
Beryl Yates
Alan Sutton
1989.
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Other Genealogy Resources
Title/
ISBN
Author/
Publisher/
Year
The Dictionary of Genealogy
(313 pages)
0-7136-3348-4
Terrick V.H. FitzHugh
A & C Black
1985 (Rev. 1991)
Enjoying Archives
(213 pages)
0-85033-561-2
David Iredale
Phillimore
1973 (Rev. 1985)
English Genealogy
(475 pages)
0-85033-473-X
Sir Anthony Wagner
Phillimore
1972 (Rev. 1985)
Huguenot Ancestry
(150 pages)
0-85033-564-7
Currer-Briggs & Gambier
Phillimore
1985.
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