Tourist Maps of Devon

  Contents The Tourist Maps of Devon   Guide Book and Folding Maps 1810 - 1901   Plan of the Coast from Jackson's Guide (see Crossing) Foreword (see below)                              Preface (see below)     Acknowledgements (see below)                          Click the heading to access the appropriate section (in blue). Click The Tourist Books of Devon to access the catalogue of maps so far uploaded. Introduction    -          The Guide Book                                                         Devon Guide Books       ...

  The  Ordnance Survey – Tourist Maps (combining multiple sheets)   OS 5 – Torquay 2   Size: 730 x 510 mm .   Scale of One Inch to One Statute Mile (8F + 4 = 130 mm) Miles .   TORQUAY (CaOS). Above the map are: ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND (AaOS) and PARTS OF SHEETS 324, 325, 338, 339, 349, 350 (EaOS). Signature: Revised in 1896 and Published at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1901 (EeOS). Parts of OS sheets 324, 325, 338, 339, 349 and 350 printed as one sheet to form a map of the area surrounding to the north of and surrounding Tor Bay. Scale of 1 inch to mile. Compass with magnetic deviation in margin (EdOS). Area is from Exeter in the north with the coast from Exmouth as far as Stoke Fleming and inland (west) as far as Chagford, Widecombe and South Brent.  Scale 1 Inch to a Mile (printed red waterproof covers with OS crest and reference to sheet numbers).  1. 1901 Ordnance Survey. Torquay.  ...

   The  Ordnance Survey – Tourist Maps (combining multiple sheets)   OS 4 – North Devon   Size : 460 x 775 mm .   Scale of One Inch to One Statute Mile (8F + 4 = 125 mm) Miles .   NORTH DEVON (CaOS). Above map are: ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND (AaOS) and SHEETS 276, 277, 293  / PARTS OF SHEETS 278, 292, 294 (EaOS). Signature: Revised in 1896-7 and Published by Colonel D A Johnston, R E Director General. 1901 (EeOS) with second line: Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton in 1901 (also EeOS). Price 1s. 3d. OS sheets 276, 277 and 293 (complete) with parts of 278, 292 and 294 printed as one sheet to form a map of North Devon. Scale of 1 inch to mile. Compass with magnetic deviation in margin (EdOS)  (printed red waterproof covers with OS crest and reference to sheet numbers).   1. 1901  Ordnance Survey. North Devon.                Southampton : ...

  The  Ordnance Survey – Tourist Maps (combining multiple sheets)   OS 3 – Dartmoor      Size : 635 x 485 mm .   Scale of One Inch to One Statute Mile (8F + 4 = 125 mm) Miles .   DARTMOOR (CaOS) with signature: Revised in 1896 and Published by Colonel D A Johnston, R E Director General. 1900 (EeOS). Second line: Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton in 1900 (also EeOS). Above map are: ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND (AaOS) and SHEETS 324 / 328 (EaOS). OS sheets 324 and 338 (complete) printed as one sheet to form a map of Dartmoor . Scale of 1 inch to mile. Compass with magnetic deviation in margin (EdOS).Small illustration below map of adjoining sheets. Area covered from Hatherleigh and Zeal Monochorum in the north to Harrowbeer and Ashburton in the south in  (plain red waterproof covers with paper label).   1. 1900             Ordnance Survey. Dartmoor . 1 ...

  The  Ordnance Survey – Tourist Maps (combining multiple sheets)   OS 2 – Plymouth   Size: 505 x 640 mm .   Scale of One Inch to One Statute Mile (8F + 4 = 125 mm) Miles .   PLYMOUTH (CaOS). Above the map are: ORDNANCE SURVEY OF ENGLAND (AaOS) and SHEETS 337.   338. / 348. 349. / 354. 355. (EaOS) with signature: Revised in 1894 and Published by Colonel D A Johnston, R E Director General. 1899 (EeOS). There is a second line: Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton in 1899 (also EeOS). Reprint 300 / 1900 (AeOS). Parts of OS sheets 337, 338, 348, 349, 354, 355 printed as one sheet to form a map of the area surrounding Plymouth. Scale of 1 inch to mile. Compass with magnetic deviation in margin (EdOS). Area is from East and West Looe to Kingston and mouth of Erme and inland to Tavistock.  Scale 1 Inch to a Mile (printed red waterproof covers with OS crest and reference to sheet numbers) 1. 1899 Ordnance Survey. ...

The  Ordnance Survey – Tourist Maps (combining multiple sheets)   The Ordnance Survey were still selling their original first generation sheets of Devon as produced by William Mudge   in 1809 (see B&B 74 ) towards the end of the 1800s. They were now cheap to produce being Printed from an Electrotype and sold by a number of mapsellers such as Letts, Son and Steer   and in various combinations of sheets, often in slipcases. But steadily, throughout the 1890s, the OS was busy resurveying the county. The individual sheets were obviously being printed but to what extent they were put on sale is still uncertain. However, a s well as producing the individual sheets from the revised one inch survey and derivatives, such as combined double and quarter page maps, a few areas were covered especially by the Ordnance Survey   and awarded special folding map status in their own covers. At the same time the OS were selling sheets at 1:500 and Edwin Chapple , Government...

  James Fawckner Nicholls   The map and guide below was contained in Nicholls’ Guide, or Pleasant Rambles Round About Lynton & Lynmouth, together with the different routes to North Devon written by James Fawckner Nicholls (1818-1883), English antiquarian and the Bristol City Librarian and author of a number of books on Bristol and the surrounding area. Nicholls had Devon connections: he was born Sidmouth and went to Kentisbeare for his schooling. He had many different jobs before returning to the westcountry; draper in Berwick, school owner in Ramsey, travelling salesman in Manchester. Finally he was appointed city librarian in Bristol in 1868. His writings were recognised and he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1876. [1] The printer and publisher was J W Arrowsmith of Quay Street, Bristol. James Williams Arrowsmith had only recently taken over the family business from his father, Isaac Arrowsmith. The company was started by Isaac in 1854 and...

  Edward Nettleton   Edward Nettleton was a bookseller, printer and publisher in Whimple Street, Plymouth. Besides publishing an early edition of Henry Woolcombe´s famous guide, The Tourist's Companion to the most interesting objects … of   Plymouth,Devonport and Stonehouse .... in 1828, i n 1836 he   printed and published a guide to Plymouth etc. written especially for him by George Wightwick , an architect. Nettleton's Guide to Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport and to the Neighbouring Country   contained three maps as well as other engravings and plans. Two of the three maps were very close copies of those that had already appeared in previous works, The Tourist's Companion ; Being a Guide to Devonport, Stoke, Morice-Town Stonehouse, and Plymouth, by John Sandford; and from A View Of Plymouth-Dock, Plymouth and the adjacent country published by A Granville & Son in 1812. Nettleton flourished certainly between 1801 ( Zion’s Pilgrim ) and 1847 ( Trout Fli...

  Samuel and James Neele   Neele 2 The first guide to Plymouth is attributable to Henry Woollcombe , attorney-at-law resident in Frankfort Street, Plymouth and a freeman of the Borough. He was the founding member of the Plymouth Institution which was formed in 1812. He laid the foundation stone of the Athenaeum in 1812 which became the institutions new home. Although his A View Of Plymouth-Dock, Plymouth and the adjacent country contained only one map when first issued, further maps were added for editions of The Tourist's Companion; and The Stranger’s Guide when they appeared post-1823 although this Neele map was maintained (see Cooke 1 and 2). The later guides are the work of John Sanford. Size : 175 x 210 mm.  Scale of Miles (6 = 37 mm). ENVIRONS OF PLYMOUTH, AND DOCK. Imprints (CeOS): Plymouth Dock, Published by Granville & Son 1812 (sic) with Entered at Stationers Hall (below). Signature: Neele, sc, Strand (EeOS). A plain two line border. There is a c...