Besley 4 


Size: 220 x 360 mm.                                                                         SCALE OF YARDS(1500 = 78 mm). 

PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE (Ed). Imprint: Printed & Published by Henry Besley, Directory Office, South Street, Exeter.  (CeOS). Signature: Engraved by BECKER'S Patent Process on Steel, 11 Stationers' Court, London. (EeOS). The railway is shown as solid line to Plymouth. 

1. 1852

Hand Book of  Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Extracted from the Route Book

Exeter. H Besley. (1852[1]).       KB.

 

 The Route Book Of Devon ... New Edition

Exeter. H Besley. (1854[2]), (1856[3]).      FB, KB; KB.

 

2. 1871

Addition of roads and places, eg castle on Mount Batten. New premises above Mill Lake. New developments north and east of Sutton Pool. Church and area for Dissenters added at cemetery (north).

 

The Route Book Of Devon ... A New Edition

Exeter. H Besley. (1871).          BL[4], DevA, NLS, KB.

 

3. 1877


Printer’s signature deleted (EeOS). Addition of railway information, eg Mutley Station, North Road Joint Station and Devonport Station added. East of Sutton Pool the new Devon and Cornwall line has been added together with Friary Goods Station. Addition of St Jude’s Church. 

The Route Book Of Devon ... A New Edition
Exeter. H Besley & Son. (1877[5]). BL, KB. 

4. 1885

Original Dartmoor Railway line at Sutton Pool has added name: Sutton Harbour Branch of GWR and Sutton Harbour station added (all in capitals). Illustrated.

 

Plan of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse (printed label) folding into blue covers

Exeter. H Besley. (1885).      KB.


[1] This would seem to pre-date the Route Book entries that follow: there are four views (Somers Cocks 125, 126, 129 and 130), none of which are dated. The expected completion of basin and lock at Devonport is planned for 1853 (p. 50). The date may have been altered (from the 1850 text) when the part was repaginated.

[2] Last date in text relates to expected completion of a basin and lock at Devonport in 1851 (p. 313); this implies no change to 1850 text. Engravings are dated 1853 and 1854 and there is an advert for Cooper’s Lynton (1853).

[3] Text as 1854, advert for second edition of Rowe’s Perambulations of Dartmoor (1856).

[4] BL (10368.aaa.49).

[5] BL 10360.aaa.68. Last date in main text is 29th May 1876 (p.333) but may be later (no adverts).

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