Heavitree
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Heavitree is a historic village and former civil parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in Devon, England, and is today an eastern district of that city. It was formerly the
The Heavitree public house in Fore Street. (The pub has reverted to its former name 'The Horse And Groom' since this photograph was taken.)
The church of St Michael and All Angels
Part of Heavitree Pleasure Ground
Livery Dole
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Livery Dole in Exeter, Devon, is an ancient triangular site between what is today Heavitree Road and Magdalen Road, in the eastern suburbs of Exeter. It was most notoriously used as a place for execut
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…of 1086 as Hevetrowa or Hevetrove, and in a document of c.1130 as Hefatriwe. Its derivation is uncertain, but because of the known execution site at Livery Dole, it is thought most likely to derive from heafod–treow (old English for "head tree"), which refers to a tree on which the heads of criminals were placed…
"Livery Dole Chapel with the old alms-houses taken down in 1850". View from south-east drawn by W.Spreat of Exeter
Livery Dole in 2012, viewed from south-east, showing new position of 1849 replacement almshouses
Protestant Martyrs' Monument, Denmark Road, Exeter, Devon. Erected 1909 in memory of the martyrs Thomas Benet and Agnes Prest.
Anonymous watercolour of Richard Holmyard arrested for forgery on the City Bank taken for execution to the gallows in Magdalen Road, 1818. From the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's collection (685/1997/4)