Edward Croydon 4

Shortly after the arrival of the South Devon Railway into Teignmouth, Edwad Croydon published a detailled plan of the town. This very large plan has a lot of empty space! The map shows all of the town dwellings and the surrounding area. Teignmouth Station (see detail below) is shown with the tunnel on the east but goes no further. As the station was officially brought into service on 30th May 1846 and the railway proceeded as far as Newton Abbot the following year, the plan should date to 1846. However, the Roman Catholic Church on Myrtle Hill (actually Church of our Lady and S. Charles), built 1854 and opened 1855 is also shown. On the Dawlish Road the property Dunesk is shown: this became a Convent of the Benedictine Sisterhood 1862-63 [1]. A date of 1856-1861 is therefore suggested.

 Size: 620 x 770 mm.  (1 = 320 mm) MILE.                                                                                                              

Plan of the TOWN OF TEIGNMOUTH and its Environs. (Ed-Ee) with imprint below: PUBLISHED BY EDWARD CROYDON, Bookseller and General Stationer ROYAL LIBRARY – REGENT PLACE. Lithographer´s signature: W Spreat, Lith, Exeter. (Ee). Note: Registered According to Act of Parliament (CeOS).

Shows the area from Pole Sand and Shaldon Villa (Be) across to the junction of Holcombe Road and Dawlish Road with Smuggler’s Lane (Eb) and inland north as far as Haldon-Holcombe Cross (Ca). Shaldon and Teignmouth shown in detail. Compass (Aa). The South Devon Railway is shown only to the station itself.

 1. 1860            Plan of the Town of Teignmouth and its Environs (cover title)

                        Teignmouth: Edward Croydon. (1860).       KB.

To view all Croydon´s maps:

Croydon 1 - A Map of Teignmouth and Vicinity - click here.

Croydon 2 - The Teignmouth Guide (later also The Torquay Guide) - click here.

Croydon 3 - Torquay and its Neighbourhood - click here. 

Croydon 4 - A Plan of the Town of Teignmouth -  click here.

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[1]  . See Croydon’s Teignmouth Guide (16^th Edition).

 Henry S Eland

Added January 2026

An informative article, Eland the Stationers, is online as part of the Exeter Memories website. I would like to state that most of the following is based on this very informative article.

Henry Septimus Eland

Henry Septimus Eland was from a prosperous Northamptonshire family and travelled Europe on the Grand Tour. His appreciation for art was aroused and he collected items that would later be displayed in his house in Exeter. Henry married an Exminster girl, Emma Jane Pearce, in April 1871, and they toured Scotland in 1871, a journey made popular by Queen Victoria.

Eland purchased Clifford's bookseller´s business at 24 High Street, Exeter, August 1869, but only a year later, in August 1870, he moved to 236 High Street and set up a bookshop with lending library and art gallery. Within a month he had purchased the stock of another Exeter bookseller, E J Arnold. It quickly became a place that the landed gentry would frequent, especially the ladies.

Eland´s in the High Street, Exeter. Courtesy Exeter Memories website.

From 1890, Eland's instituted two annual art shows, one for local artists and one for invited work. Some 200 water colours and paintings were on permanent display for purchase. However, Henry Eland was also printer and publisher. Although the majority of works were theological in nature or dealt with art and architecture, sometimes in cooperation with London publishers, many books appeared of local interest: Devonshire celebrities by Thomas Lawrence Pridham was probably one of his earliest ventures in 1869; Art in Devonshire: with the biographies of artists born in that county by George Pycroft (1883): We Donkeys in Devon originally penned by Volo non valeo (1885), was republished two years later and attributed to Maria Susannah Gibbons and the companion We donkeys on Dartmoor; Hannah Cox O'Neill´s Devonshire idyls, etc. (1892/1893); the Second edition of Devonshire antiquities ... With illustrations, etc by J. Chudleigh (1893); and The visitors' guide to Exmouth With map. This originally appeared in 1882 and a New edition followed c. 1887. Eland's had opened a branch at the Strand, Exmouth which was still trading in 1960 (and a third branch at Axminster).

Henry Septimus Eland died on the 1st July 1901, leaving the business in the hands of trustees until his two sons, Frank and Fowler were 25 in 1909. The publishing side of the business seems to have ceased with his death.

In the Second World War Eland's shop was completely destroyed in the raid of 4th May 1942. After a number of relocations, in 1997 they moved into Mol's Coffee House, Cathedral Close. In 2006, a notice in the Express and Echo announced they were to close, after 136 years of providing Exeter with stationery, books and artwork.

The visitors' guide to Exmouth originally appeared in 1882; although undated a text on royal visits clearly indicates date - ... last year (1881) ...; a New edition followed c. 1887, likewise dated on the text. The map is described below. Two other maps sold by Eland were maps based on Cary´s Improved Map. The first is held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee as part of the American Geographical Society Library. Eland's new cycling and touring road map of 60 miles about Exeter including north Devon. The second, Eland's cycling and touring road map of Exeter is in the author´s collection. Both have the half-mile circles seen on other maps and this time based on Exeter.

1. Title (top left): Map to Eland's Exmouth Guide (all capitals). Artist´s signature (bottom right below map): Charles Pinn, Surveyor, Exeter. printer´s signature bottom left: Eland, Litho Exeter.

The map covers an area from Marpool Hall in the north, and the coastline and the beach in the south. The Exe River is the western boundary with the promontery with the Docks. Lime Kiln Lane forms the eastern boundary with two roads to Budleigh Salterton shown. The railway to Railway Station and Docks is shown. Size: 28 x 32 cm.

Eland´s Visitors´ Guide to Exmouth, with map. Henry S Eland, Exeter and Exmouth (1882). Sixpence. (all capitals). KB.

Eland´s Visitors´ Guide to Exmouth, with map. New Edition. (1887). BL.

   

Sources used by original author (illustrations): Besleys and Kellys Directories, an unpublished memoir by Henry Holladay, Geraldine Eland for the interior of the shop, Exeter Burning by Peter Thomas and the Devon Libraries Local Studies webpages and the Holladay Family Archive for the photo of Septimus Eland. Books published found on JISC Discover. Map information from Kit Batten.

For Cary´s Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Cary and others - click here.

To return / access the Catalogue of Maps in this work - click here

John Cary - Gall & Inglis

Added December 2025

Gall & Inglis were successful publishers who had bought part of the stock of George Frederick Cruchley when it came up for auction in 1877. Some of the plates sold included those of John Cary that Cruchley had acquired over thirty years previously. These were again revised and issued in cooperation with local companies such as A H Swiss of Devonport. Other late examples of Gall & Inglis exploiting their stock of old Cary maps are maps of the Exeter area prepared for local companies. 

If you happened to visit Exeter in the short period between 1997 and 2006, you may have walked into the lovely bookshop which occupied the even lovelier premises of Mol´s Coffee House opposite the cathedral. At that time the shop was being run by the Eland family. Eland´s business opened on 28th August 1869 and would continue operations, at various Exeter adresses, until it closed in 2006. An informative article, Eland the Stationers, is online as part of the Exeter Memories website. Henry S Eland died in 1901, so both the Eland maps below predate 1900. He also published a Guide to Exmouth with map 1882.

Two maps published on behalf of Eland have been located which were based on Cary´s Improved map. The first is held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee as part of the American Geographical Society Library. Eland's new cycling and touring road map of 60 miles about Exeter including north Devon. The second, Eland's cycling and touring road map of Exeter is in the author´s collection. Both have the half-mile circles seen on other maps and this time based on Exeter, as might be expected. Milwaukee tentatively date their map to 1880, which ties in with the date of acquisition by Gall & Inglis of the plates.

1. The map covers an extensive area from Morte Bay across to just east of Watchett in the north, Plymouth is shown in the bottom left corner, breaking the border, and the coastline is shown to Branscombe. Only the South Hams below Totnes and small portions of the west and east county borders are lacking. Most of the fathom depths remain. The railway to Ashton Station is shown, then there are signs of removal before a dotted line continues to Exeter. Title above map: Eland's new cycling and touring road map of 60 miles about Exeter (all capitals) and publisher´s imprint below map to left: Eland, Newsagent, Bookseller, Stationer, & Circulating Library, Exeter and Exmouth (all capitals). Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh printer´s signature bottom right. Size: 82 x 71 cm.

Eland's new cycling and touring road map of 60 miles about Exeter including north Devon with one mile circles (cover title).              University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Online

2. The map covers a smaller area from Torrington to just east of Wellington in the north, and from Egg Buckland in the bottom left corner, to Brixham and then the coast to Seaton. All of the fathom depths removed. The railway to Ashton Station is shown as above. Title above map: Eland's new cycling and touring road map of Exeter and District (all capitals) and publisher´s imprint below map to left: Henry S Eland, Exeter and Exmouth (all capitals). Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh printer´s signature bottom right. Size: 82 x 71 cm.

Eland's new cycling and touring road map of Exeter and District with one mile circles (cover title).               Kit Batten

Early in the 1900s (1910) Gall & Inglis printed a map especially for Standfield and White of Sidwell Street, Exeter. They were Automobile Engineers and Motor Body Builders. The map, 390 mm x 525 mm (borders) covers an area from Paignton to Bampton and Chulmleigh to Honiton and has the usual radiating circles centred on Exeter. Folding into blue covers with details of the firm´s activities, the scale is shown as 10 miles to 130 mm.

An obituary of Sebastian Morton White can be found in Grace´s Guide. He acquired another business in 1901 and established the company. At first car builders, they gave this part of the business up about 1913 and became dealers including agents for Wolseley. A film of an outing in 1932 can be seen at Exeter Memories.

3. The map again covers a smaller area: from South Molton to just east of Wellington in the north, and from Brent Station in the bottom left corner, to Paignton and then the coast to Sidmouth. Most of the fathom depths remain. The railway to Ashton Station continues to Exeter with Christow Station. Title above map: Standfield & White, Ltd., 8 Sidwell Street, Exeter (all capitals) and continues below map: Automobile Engineers and Motor Body Builders (all capitals). Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh printer´s signature bottom right. Size (not including text): 39.5 x 52.5 cm.

Standfield & White, Ltd., 8 Sidwell Street, Exeter (cover has no title).               Kit Batten

For Cary´s county maps refer to The Printed Maps of Devon entries  51, 54, 55, 69, 71, 73 and 92. Click reference number to open directly.

For Cary´s New Map of England and Wales so-called "square atlas" - click here.

For Cary´s Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Cary and others - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by John Heydon - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by A H Swiss - click here.

For the section of Improved Map of England and Wales as issued by Thomas Doidge - click here.

For the 2 sections of Improved Map of England and Wales as used by Beatrix Cresswell - click here.

For the section of Cary´s Reduced Ordnance Map of England and Wales as issued by G F Cruchley to show Dartmoor Maneouvres - click here.

To return / access the Catalogue of Maps in this work - click here

 Tourist Maps of Devon

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Guide Book Maps & Folding Maps

Short Catalogue of Entries

The the most direct way to access maps and mapmakers -

is simply click on the link below. 

For an overview of guide book publication in Victorian Britain go to the Introduction. This has extensive information concerning guide book production as a whole as well as focussing on local publishers such as John Banfield in Ilfracombe, Henry Besley in Exeter and John Cooke in Plymouth.

There are chapters on:

Centres of Production - London
Centres of Production - Edinburgh
Centres of Production - Plymouth
Centres of Production - The “Library” at Ilfracombe
Centres of Production - Exeter
Centres of Production - Teignmouth and Torquay

For a guide to the scope of this work and an explanation of the system and the various abbreviations, terms etc. used go to the Explanation. This has extensive notes on Definition, Ordering, Dates, Headings, Biographical Notes, Size, Scale, Inscriptions, Sources, Position of Features and Publication. A guide to institutions holding the works included here is also given under Catalogue References.

For the catalogue of author listed alphabetically together with the title of their map(s), size and imprints go to Alphabetical Catalogue by Author.

Map Catalogue - click on Publisher / Artist to access map(s)

Allday - Allday´s  ... Illustrated Guides

Anon 1 –British Association - Exeter

Anon 2 – Farley’s Hotel - small plans of Plymouth

Anon 3 – Watering Places - South Devon Coast

Appleton - Map of Torquay

Bacon - various maps - five separate entries

Banfield - various maps - seven separate entries

Bartholomew - maps derived from The Imperial Map - 8 entries and 2 maps for W H Smith

Becker - maps of Plymouth and North Devon

Besley - various maps - nine separate entries

Black, A & C - various maps - 6 separate entries from Black´s Guide Books

Brendon W inc. Brendon & Son - 2 maps of Plymouth etc.

Brindley - Plymouth map for Plymouth and Devonport Guide

Brownlow - 1775 map of St Marychurch, Torquay

Cary - New Map of England and Wales, the Improved Map (7 entries including Heydon (Plymouth), Westley (Torquay), Swiss (Plymouth), Doidge (Plymouth), Eland and Standfield & White (both Exeter) and Cresswell (Dartmoor) and Dartmoor map for Cruchley (Autumn Manouevres)

Cassell  & Co. Ltd - 5 entries incl. Chanter (Lundy)

Catford - North Devon Creber - map of Plymouth for Eyre´s PO Directory

Cockrem - various maps - seven separate entries of Torquay         and area

Coles / Owen - two maps of Bideford

Cooke - complete listing - see my full article.

Cranford - map of the River Dart

Creber - for Eyre´s P O Directory

Cresswell - two maps of Teignmouth

Croker - Eastern Escarpment of Dartmoor

Crossing - for Jackson´s Marine Guide (and link to Dartmoor plans)

Croydon - four maps of Teignmouth / Torquay

Culverwell / Lethaby - map of Sidmouth used by Hutchinson

Dulau  - North Devon (11 maps) & South Devon (10 maps) plus Exeter and map of "Dartmoor Loop" Eland - Exmouth

Elliott - Torquay

Fairweather - two maps of Salcombe

Featherstone - two maps of Exeter

Feltham - Sidmouth, Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth and Shaldon

Foster - map of Plymouth etc.

Freeman - Exmouth

Gregory - Brixham

Hearder Torquay - trade card

Hearder Plymouth - two Fisherman´s maps of South Devon

Heydon - two maps of Plymouth etc.

Heywood - maps of Torquay and Plymouth with Devonport

Hutchinson - three maps of Sidmouth and area

Iredale - map of Torquay

Jewitt - Royal Agricultural Show in Exeter

Maddock - two maps of Plymouth and one of Dawlish

Mardon - Torquay and District Mortimer - map of River Dart Moss - map of the River Axe Murray - various maps for Murray´s Handbooks - 12 entries Neele - early map of Sidmouth and map of Plymouth area Nettleton / Cooper - three maps for Nettleton´s Guide Nicholls - map of north coast of Devon for Nicholl´s Guide OS - maps of Torquay (2), Plymouth, Dartmoor and North Devon formed from multiple OS sheets Pearson - map of north coast of Devon for Pearson´s Gossipy Guide to Ilfracombe Pollard - Church Congress (1894) map of Exeter Robbins / Tait - Tait´s Sketch Map of Ilfracombe  Rowe - Chart of Plymouth Sound for The Panorama of Plymouth Rundell / Thomas - Plymouth harbour with scale of ferry fares Smith, E - two maps for Picnic: an illustrated guide to Ilfracombe Smith, J - map of Plymouth for Eyre´s P O Directory  Stanford - Dartmoor for Autumn Manoeuvres (1873) Stewart - two versions of Coast of North Devon Tedrake - Tedrake´s Guide to Bideford Thomas, E - Holiday Guide to St Marychurch and Babbicombe Torquay Times - map of Torquay from Torquay Illustrated Trythall - two maps for The Three Towns Directory Twiss - seven maps of Ilfracombe and north Devon coast Vincent - Vincent´s Guide to Exeter Wagner & Debes - three maps from the Baedeker guides Walker & Boutall - eight simple plans from late editions of A & C Black´s guide series Wallis - map of Sidmouth (and Beer) Ward & Lock - twelve separate maps for the Ward & Lock series of guide books Weller, E - Great Western Railway map Weller, F S - map of Plymouth from the Comprehensive Gazetteer Westley - A Plan of the Town of Torquay Wheaton - Wheaton´s New Map of Exeter Wood - maps of Plymouth, Exeter, Mount Edgcumbe and South Devon Wright - plan of Okehampton and map of South Devonshire Wyld -  map of Dartmoor district for Autumn Manoeuvres (1873)

 

 

 JAMES WYLD

Both Edward Stanford and G F Cruchley[1] produced folding maps concerning the military manoeuvres which took place on Dartmoor in 1873. However, they were not the only publishers: James Wyld also published a map showing Dartmoor just in time for the manoeuvres which were held in the autumn of 1873.

James Wyld published two maps of Devon: a reissue of the Baker/Faden map of 1799 (B&B 62, issued from circa 1861); and a reissue of W Faden’s map of 1816 (from 1833, B&B 80B). He also issued other maps covering parts of Devon including maps by James Green[2] and John Pascoe[3] concerning proposed canal and road improvements. He also sold a map of Plymouth by John Cooke in a slip case with his label.

Size: 755 x 850 mm. English Statute Miles (8F + 5M = 155 mm).

WYLD'S MAP OF THE COUNTRY TO BE OCCUPIED FOR THE MILITARY MANOEUVRES DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1873 (across top border) with COPYRIGHT (EaOS); Imprint (CeOS): Published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, 451 Strand, 11 and 12 Charing Cross & 2 Royal Exchange, London. July 22nd, 1873. Scale (EbOS) and the map is divided into one mile squares. Coloured key to show areas to be used.

Heavily hachured map of Dartmoor and the surrounding areas. Exeter and Torbay are in the border (EaOS and EdOS respectively). Plymouth and Whitesand Bay occupy the bottom left corner.

1. 1873 Wyld's Map Of The Country ....
London. James Wyld. 1873. TM.

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[1] Cruchley used two maps based on John Cary's plates: see Tim Nicholson's article on Cruchley folding maps in the IMCoS JOURNAL, Spring 2003. However, only one has been seen by the author.

[2] Plan of the EXETER CANAL, and of the proposed EXTENSIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. by JAMES GREEN, Civil Engineer 1828. (Aa). Imprints: J. Wyld, Sculp. 5 Charing Cross (EeOS).

[3] A MAP of the ROADS belonging to the Exeter Turnpike Trust with Proposed Improvements as projected by JOHN PASCOE, Civil Engineer 1825.  Imprint: J. Wyld 5 Charing Cross Sculp (CeOS).

 W H Kearley WRIGHT

W H Kearley Wright was the Borough Librarian in Plymouth when he wrote his history of Okehampton. However, he was also the editor of a series of magazines, The Western Antiquary; or Devon and Cornwall Note-Book. These were published between 1881 - 1892 with W H Luke being the printer/publisher for many of the issues; Latimer and Son from 1881 – 1886; and in London, Elliot Stock, 1896.

The magazine included numerous illustrations, plans, pedigrees, etc inc. folding. It was a wonderfully ambitous monthly publication, with contributions from leading local historians; it covered every aspect of life, historical, topographical, current in Cornwall and Devon. A few additional parts were published in 1895, forming a twelve volume set.

Wright's history of Okehampton appeared in 1887 with text: this was a reissue of parts published in c.1839 and printed by G P Hearder with additional notes by Rev. H G Fothergill and updated with new chapters plus a map.

Wright 1

Size: 215 x 155 mm. No Scale.

The map has no title but shows OKEHAMPTON (Cb); it is drawn from the OS map of the district from Home Farm in the north to the reservoir in the south.

1. 1887 Some Account Of The Barony And Town Of Okehampton. A New Edition.
Tiverton. William Masland. 1889. KB.

Wright 2

Picturesque South Devon appeared at the beginning of the 20th century; the last date in the text is 1900 and although the railways from Ashton to Exeter (1901) and from Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton (1903) are included on the map, they are not mentioned in the text. The map was actually the lower half of a map executed c.1894 by F S Weller for The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, edited by J H F Brabner and published by William Mackenzie. The shire series editor was A H Millar FSA and the Devon volume was by W H K Wright.

The map shows a number of changes; new title, Bartholomew’s signature, removal of imprint, compass added, scale bar reduced, border altered and lowered to include more sea, parliamentary divisions removed and colouring altered accordingly. Salterton becomes Budleigh Salterton. Shows railways from Ashton/Doddiscombleigh to Exeter and Budleigh Salterton (1901/1903 but planned much earlier).

Size: 160 x 213 mm. English Miles (10 = 28 mm).

SOUTH DEVONSHIRE (Ed). The map has imprints: Copyright (AeOS); and John Bartholomew & Co. Edinr (EeOS). Graticuled border and compass rose (Dd) above title and scale bar. County border and coast colured pink.

1. 1900 The Shire Series: Picturesque South Devonshire. By W H K Wright
London. Valentine & Sons Ltd. (1900). DevA, KB.

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