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Sowton Business Park, Exeter. A restructuring of services led to the creation of the Devon Heritage Service in November 2011 with the aim of integrating the collections of the DRO and the Westcountry Studies Library, and from autumn 2012 the Westcountry Studies Library that had been housed in Exeter city centre, moved into Great Moor House which was renamed the Devon Heritage Centre. On 1 November 2014 Devon Heritage Services was transferred from the County Council to the management of the South West Heritage Trust (an independent charity, which also runs
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in 1952. The DRO incorporated the Exeter City Record Office that had collected Devon's records since 1946, when it took over from the Exeter City Library, which had collected documents since the early 20th century. In 2005 the DRO moved into a specially-constructed building at Great Moor House,
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courts from 1592 until their abolition in 1971; this is the earliest uninterrupted series of such records in the country. Other holdings include the records of the city of Exeter from c.1100; the records of the
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The Devon Heritage Centre (DHC) is the successor to the Devon Record Office (DRO) that was established by
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Among the holdings of the DHC are the complete records of the Devon
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Great Moor House, the building that houses the Devon Heritage Centre
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under the name of the Devon Archives and Local Studies Service.
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Devon Record Office

local archives
historic county
Devon
Exeter
archive
Barnstaple
South West Heritage Trust
The Box
Plymouth
Devon County Council
Somerset Archives and Local Studies
Quarter Sessions
Diocese of Exeter
Joan Sinar
"North Devon Record Office"
the original
"Devon Record Office, England"
"The new Records Office for the 21st century"
"South West Heritage Trust. The Devon Perspective"
"A New Future for Devon's Heritage"
the original
"Devon Archives and Local Studies Service"
the original
"Development of South West Heritage Trust"
the original
"The Right to Remain Silent"
the original
"What records do we hold?"

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