[1] Davidson died at Secktor House, Axminster, on 29 February 1864, and was buried in the town cemetery.
[1] Davidson's major work of local history was Bibliotheca Devoniensis; a Catalogue of the Printed Books relating to the County of Devon (1852, supplement 1862).
On the Axe Valley, he wrote:[1] Another work was A Glossary to the Obsolete and Unused Words and Phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the Authorised English Version (1850).
Davidson wrote also for Notes and Queries, Pulman's Weekly News and the Gentleman's Magazine.
His eldest son, James Bridge Davidson, who died on 8 October 1885, aged 61, had similar interests.