Editing Heavitree (section)

==Recreation==
[[File:Heavitree Pleasure Ground - geograph.org.uk - 268019.jpg|thumb|right|Part of Heavitree Pleasure Ground]]
By 1905 there was pressure to provide facilities for the youth of the district who were causing problems in Fore Street in the evenings, so at the end of that year the urban district council purchased four fields from a builder for £3,100 and opened a children's playground on 1 May 1906. The rest of the grounds were landscaped by the [[Veitch Nurseries|Veitch family]], and a bowling green and tennis courts followed in 1907.<ref>Falla, 1983, p.36</ref> Heavitree Pleasure Ground is still open today and contains a number of leisure facilities.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.exeter.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1974
 |title       = Heavitree Pleasure Ground
 |publisher   = Exeter City Council
 |access-date  = 26 December 2011
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20120208001347/http://www.exeter.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1974
 |archive-date = 8 February 2012
 |df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>

The district's [[association football|football]] team, Heavitree Social United (a merger of the previous Heavitree United and Heavitree Social Club), is one of the better known local teams in Exeter, {{As of|2006|lc=on}} playing in the [[Devon and Exeter Football League]] Premier division; the club has previously played in the (more senior) [[Devon County League]].