Agnes Prest — Exeter martyr — Burned at the stake in Southernhay on 15 August 1557
August 14, 2022
Today Southernhay is a leafy street of attractive Georgian town houses and modern offices just beyond Exeter’s ancient city walls. It follows the line of the great town ditch, know as the Crulditch a name which, according to Devon historian Hoskins, comes from the word crull, meaning curly, as the ditch followed the curve of the city wall.
You might just be able to make out the name Crulditch on this map of the city which was commissioned in 1587 …