Eggbuckland

One of the more interesting local names Eggbuckland is also one of the oldest. Just before the Norman Conquest and thus prior to the Domesday Survey this estate was held by a Saxon lord called Heche. In 1068 it was known as Hecke's boke londe or Heche's book land, in other words land entered in the book as belonging to Heche.

By 1385 it had become Ekebokland and then over the years it was corrupted by a variety of mispronunciations and misspellings into the present Eggbuckland.

Until 1939 the Parish Council of Eggbuckland fell under the control of Plympton Rural District Council, in that fateful year however it found itself for the first time inside Plymouth's ever expanding boundary line.