Name Index

To

History of the suburban parish of St. Leonards, Exeter

Exeter, Gandy Street: James Townsend, (1873), 24 pp. plus appendix

by

Robert Dymond

Prepared by Michael Steer

Dymond's history was based upon a paper read at a meeting of the Exeter Naturalist's Club and Archaeological Society on 17th April, 1873. For hundreds of years, St Leonards, insulated from the ancient city of Exeter, by the Sutbrooke Valley (also known by the Anglo Saxon Shytebrook for obvious reasons) along which flowed the now culverted Larkbeare Stream, was small, sparsely populated and mostly poor, with the exception of one or two estates. The original scrap of St Leonard's covered a mere 173 acres, and was the smallest parish in Devon. It had a roughly C shaped spread across a flat plain between the Sutbrook and Northbrook valleys. It was enlarged in 1869 when land by Fairpark Road was added to the parish. Since then, the interior of the C has been filled in, adding all the land to the west of Barrack Road, while part of the old city parish of St Trinity, that lay outside the South Gate, including much of Magdalen Street and Holloway Street, was added in 1969. The modern St Leonard's has two city councillors for the population of 4,500 people. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the Princeton University Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

There is a list of Rectors at page 32. A more complete index for the Rectors by Harris (1913) appears on the GENUKI St Leonard page, under Church History.

An elaborate pedigree of the Baring family is presented at page 34 and repeated at page 40