John Bartholomew 5 - Hiorns & Miller 

Bartholomew Imperial Map 5 (Hiorns & Miller)

The company of Hiorns and Miller would appear to have specialised in Naval and Military matters. Certainly the title to their hunting map makes this clear: Published By Hiorns & Miller Navy & Army Printers & Stationers.[1] The firm were listed in Kelly’s Directories in 1910, at 107 Fore St & Granby St Devonport as 'printers and stationers’ and in 1939, as Hiorns and Miller (Successors), Statnrs, still at 107 Fore St Devonport. One illustration is listed, that of Meavy Church, in Hiorns and Miller's Series 42282, circa 1908. The publisher of Elizabeth Brabazon´s Exmouth and its environs was N L Hiorns in 1866 and may have been a relative. 

Size: 405 x 360 mm.                              Scale 2 Miles to an Inch (5 = 65). 

HIORNS & MILLER’S MAP OF THE DARTMOOR HUNT (Aa) in panel together with imprint: PUBLISHED BY HIORNS & MILLER NAVY & ARMY PRINTERS & STATIONERS 107 FORE STREET DEVONPORT. Signature: John Bartholomew & Co. (EeOS) and Copyright (CeOS) and The Edinburgh Geographical Institute (AeOS). Note: The numbers of the meets run consecutively from left to right as near as possible in title panel.

Part of Bartholomew’s map of South Devon completed circa 1895[2]. Coast from Rame to Stoke Fleming and north as far as Lydford and Chudleigh. Note that Ramilies Cove is missing and that railway lines to Yealmpton (1898) and Calstock (1908) have not yet been added. Dousland Station is Dowsland Sta. Numbers have been added for the hunts and the geographical name of hunt underlined. Illustrated. 

1.1898   Hunting Map – Dartmoor Hunt (cover title)

                Devonport. Hiorns and Miller. (1898).           KB. 

2.1898   Meets as before but 4 extra meets added with a letter A added to numbers (and named) as 7A, 8A, 22A, 32A as well as an old meet now named Whinfield. 

                Hunting Map – Dartmoor Hunt (cover title)

                Devonport. Hiorns and Miller. (1898).           TB.


[1] Other publications recorded at the Devon Libraries are in the same vein: Ronald Hopwood’s The Laws of the Navy reprinted from Army and Navy Gazette of 23rd July 1898 and published in the same year (Exeter Westcountry Studies Library – 3rd impression); Henry Whitfield’s Plymouth and Devonport – in times of war and peace (pub. 1900 with E Chapple); War services of the 1/5th Battalion the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1914-1919 (pub. C.1919 - Record no: 15528, Plymouth); H W Hawkins’ Elements of citizenship, 1947 (Exeter Westcountry Studies Library Record no: 38256); and Arthur Duckworth’s An Introduction to the Naval Court-Martial Procedure (pub. 1955).

[2] This map (see Victorian Maps of Devon B&B 174) was originally issued c.1895. By early 1900 Ramilies Cove had been added and the Dousland Station correct.

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