Besley 8 

In the 1870s, some time after Besley junior became a partner, the company produced a map of Dartmoor. For some reason, father and son were unhappy with the map or perhaps the plates became damaged, but only a few years later a second, almost exact copy was printed and published. It is very difficult to identify any additions, only towns seem to have been represented rather more effectively on the later map with more buildings represented, e.g. at Okehampton (Oakhampton in earlier map - see below). Otherwise all the information is the same but the font used is better and also the standard of printing. See Besley 9 for the later map.

 Dartmoor 1


Size: 520 x 395 mm.       SCALE OF MILES (1+5 = 100 mm). 

DARTMOOR. Imprints: Printed & Published by H. Besley & Son, Directory Office, South Street. Exeter. ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL (CeOS). Title (Ee); North point (Aa); Scale bar of three lines (Ee). Plain two-line border (thicker outside line). Place names in upper case throughout. Large map folding into plain green boards.

Concentrates on the area of the Forest with outlying areas left blank. Railways shown from Yeoford Junction (Ea, with directions to Exeter and to N. Devon shown) as far as Plymouth (Ae) meeting the line from Totnes (Ee). The Buckfastleigh railway to Ashburton is also shown, Moreton Hampstead Branch (3 words) as are the Lee Moor, Hey Tor (sic) and Dartmoor railways.

 

1. 1875    Dartmoor ....

Exeter. Besley & Son. (1875).        KB, MW.

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