Below is a list of random facts about Eggbuckland's Past!

• Eggbuckland Keep and Bowden Battery were the last forts to be built in the UK.



• In 1851 there was a reservoir at Crownhill.



• Widey Court was built by the Yeoman Hale during the Elizabethan prosperity.



• Eggbuckland appears on John Spry's plot of Drake's Leat in 1547.



• There were saltworks in the Forder valley until Medieval times, this flowed onto an alluvial meadow 1/4 of a mile from the church.



• Eggbuckland is claimed to have been a Domesday settlement at the head of the Plym creek.



• Eggbuckland was originally the third largest estate in Plymouth.



• In 1896 part of Eggbuckland Civil parish was added to Charles Civil parish.



• The Prince Maurice Pub is over 350 years old.



• In 1281 the manor of Eggbuckland was owned by Robert Gyffard.



• The first part of the present church was built in 1430.



• The church's registers date from 1653.



• King Charles stayed in Widey Court in 1644.



• The church was enlarged in 1864 at the cost of £1,800.



• During 1850 there were 1297 residents in the parish of Knackersknowle(Crownhill and Eggbuckland).



• Sir Francis Drake built two corn mills at Widey in 1590.



• The church clock is rewound twice a week.



• The clock in the church tower was installed in 1901.