Tourist Maps of Devon

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Guide Book Maps & Folding Maps

Short Catalogue of Entries

This is the most direct way to access maps and mapmakers. Simply click on the link below. Blue denotes those entries already uploaded: click to access directly. Note: This site is a work in progress, so please be patient!

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 (6 entries including Heydon (Plymouth), Westley (Torquay), Swiss (Plymouth), Doidge (Plymouth) 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 - Three 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"

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)


 

 




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