W ELIOT THOMAS

 Eliot Thomas wrote a short guide to the areas of St Marychurch and Babbacombe toward the end of the nineteenth century. The sketch map of the district covered is very similar to the sketch maps of Torquay and Ilfracombe used by Ward and Lock.

Size: 140 x 207 mm. SCALE (1 = 63 mm) MILE.                                     

ST MARYCHURCH & BABBICOMBE. (Ea). Copyright (Ea). Simple outline map of the area from Union Street (Torquay town centre, Be) north to the coast at Babbacombe but including the eastern peninsula of Hope’s Nose (Ed) and westward to include Watcombe. 

1. 1897            Holiday Guide to St Marychurch & Babbicombe

                        [Torquay. Eliot Thomas]. (1897).   TQ[1], [B], [NLS].

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[1] Illustration courtesy of Torquay Reference Library; all rights reserved.