John Murray - Handbook for Travellers

The following Murray maps can be found in the following editions: 

1. 1895    A Handbook for Travellers in Devon   ... Eleventh Edition revised

               London. John Murray. 1895, 1895 (1896).    KB; TM. 

              A Handbook for Travellers in Devon   ... Eleventh Edition revised

              London. Edward Stanford. 1895 (1901)[1].   KB.

Murray 9 - Lynton, Ilfracombe and Barnstaple 

Size: 160 x 300 mm. Scale: (4 = 50 mm) Miles. 

LYNTON, ILFRACOMBE, AND BARNSTAPLE. (CaOS). Imprint: London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. (CeOS). Signature: J Bartholomew Edinr (EeOS). Scale: (Aa). Copyright: (AeOS).

Description: Area from Foreland Point (in border) to Baggy Point and south to Crow Rock. Layer colouring with height table (Aa-Ab): section is taken from Bartholomew's 1895 map of South Devon.

Murray 10 - Torrington, Bideford and Clovelly

Size: 160 x 300 mm. Scale: (4 = 50 mm) Miles. 

TORRINGTON, BIDEFORD, AND CLOVELLY. (CaOS). Imprint: London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. (CeOS). Signature: J Bartholomew Edinr (EeOS). Scale (Aa). Copyright: (AeOS).

Description: Area from Abbots Bickington (in border) to Fremington and Sharpnose Point to Beaford. Layer colouring with height table (Ac): section is taken from Bartholomew's 1895 map of North Devon.

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NOTES:

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[1] Title page is still that of Murray but Stanford's name has replaced Murray's on the spine. See also note in Introduction.

Dulau - Thorough Guide Series

Dulau (North) 10 

Size: 90 x 145 mm. English Miles (8 = 50 mm). 

SECTION MAP No. 1A with with map number on EP map: MAP IA (p.21). Signature: John Bartholomew & Co. Edinr. Scale (Aa). Copyright: (AeOS).

Description: Area from Barnstaple bar in east to Lynton. Illustrated. 

1. 1890          Thorough Guide ... North Devon And North Cornwall Fifth Edition, Revised.
London. Dulau & Co. 1890 (1891).

John Roberts Chanter - Barnstaple

John Chanter's (1816-1895) first work containing a map was published in 1865; the map being a plan of the town of Barnstaple. Sketches of Some Striking Incidents in the History of Barnstaple was printed and sold by E J Arnold of High Street, Barnstaple and was a summarised history of the chief events of the town. This was the substance of a lecture that Chanter had given to the Literary & Scientific Institution of Barnstaple in March 1865. In 1866 Chanter compiled his Sketches of the Literary History of Barnstaple which again was printed and sold locally by E J Arnold. This was the bringing together of various Papers that Chanter had read at the Literary Institution.

The Striking Incidents is a rather dry affair but has an interesting account of the Danes´ involvement in the founding of Barnstaple. The Plan of Barnstaple described below is drawn with the intention of showing the limits of the castle and Castle Green, much owing to the original attempts of the Danes to fortify their landing place. The second structure highlighted is the site of the fort during the Civil Wars.

In Chanter´s later literary work he refers back to the fact that he had mentioned a murder trial held when the Assizes had to meet in Barnstaple in his Striking Incidents. In Literary History he describes the murder and how it was both sensationalised and how it contributed to Fake News at the time.

These entries serve to throw light on a disputed point in traditional history, the statement of one of our Judges (Judge Glanville) having pronounced sentence of death on his own daughter for murder. The event was one which made a great sensation at the time, and gave rise to a drama, and likewise to a great number of ballads and broadsides, published in all parts of the kingdom, “The lamentable tragedy of Page, of Plymouth.”

The following is an abridged version as he wrote it: The story had been spread that Judge Glanville´s daughter, Ulalia, was attracted to a young man of Tavistock, George Strangwidge, lieutenant. His letters were intercepted by the father who disapproved of the friendship. An old miser of Plymouth, named Page, obtained her father 's good will and Ulalia´s hand while George was at away sea. On her marriage she took her maid from Tavistock, but the husband was stingy and dismissed his servants so his wife and her maid were made to do all the work themselves.

When George Strangwidge returned from sea, the two young lovers found out that his letters had been intercepted. The maid and the mistress then plotted to get rid of the old gentleman, to which Strangwidge apparently consented with great reluctance. Page lived in Woolster Street, in Plymouth, and a woman neighbour looking out, saw a young gentleman under Page’s window, and heard him say, "for God 's sake stay your hand.”

A female voice replied, “Tis too late, the deed is done.” The following morning believing old Page to have died suddenly in the night he was buried. On the testimony, however, of the neighbour, the body was disinterred, and it appeared that he had actually been strangled. Consequently, his wife, the maid, and Strangwidge were arrested, tried, and executed. Since that time the story had been in circulation that Judge Glanville, her own father, tried her and pronounced her sentence. Chanter unravels fact from fiction: in his Striking Incidents he had mentioned the writings of Philip Wyot (reporting the events of 1590) as not only confirms the truth of the legend, but incidentally proves that her father did not try or condemn her.

Owing to the plague in Exeter, the assizes were held at Barnstaple, and only one, Judge Lord Anderson, came to try the prisoners. “The gibbet was set up on Castle Green, and XVIII prisoners hanged, whereof III of Plymouth, for a murder.” (Chanter writes IIII in Striking Incidents.) The execution is corroborated by parish registers which have entries George Strangwith and Ulalya Page as two of those executed on that day.

As well as dispersing a bit of Fake News Chanter also mentions that a number of Ballads, e.g. The lament of Master Page ’s wife of Plymouth were printed (and possibly sung) and told the story of one who being enforced by her parents to wed him against her will, did most wickedly consent to his murther, for the love of George Strangwidge, for which fact she suffered death at Barnstaple. Written with her own hands, a little before her death."

Chanter: On reading these old broad sheet ballads I was struck by the extreme similarity, both of their style and matter and getting up, to the broad sheets that are even now frequently printed and hawked about for sale, in markets and country places.

Broad sheets of this character, unfortunately, are still in great request among the younger population of our rural parishes, and form what is commonly called “Seven Dials Literature" and it is only surprising that purchasers should still be found for such consummate trash.

Chanter - History of Barnstaple

Size: 260 x 220 mm. No scale.

Plan of Barnstaple (Aa). The simple sketch map shows the town in outline only with the sites of fortifications. Note below title: The Red lines show the Sites of the Castle and Ancient walls, BARBICAN and also the FORT of the Civil war.

1. 1865 Sketches of Some Striking Incidents in the History of Barnstaple ... By J R Chanter
Barnstaple. E J Arnold. 1865.     KB, BL.

See also:

The story of Mrs Page can be found at the North Devon Museum site https://talesfromthearchives.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/the-tale-of-ulalia-page/

The North Devon Museum has the painting of Chanter illustrated and it can be viewed at https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/

 John Bartholomew 6 – ROYAL ATLAS 

As well as taking transfers from the Imperial Map to provide sectional maps for guide books as illustrated, from March 1899 to May 1900 Bartholomew also used transfers to produce a new set of regional maps. These were published in 20 parts to produce The Royal Atlas of England and Wales (edited by J Bartholomew and published by George Newnes Limited). South Devon was sheet XXXI with North Devon on sheets XXV and XXVI.

Also included in the Atlas was a second overview map of England and Wales on six sheets with a map of the West Country (Plate 12). Transfers from this map[1] were used to produce a cyclist’s map specially prepared for the Pattisons whisky company. Around the county map there are vignette scenes from the Pattisons` distillery and two of their products. The reverse is titled Pattisons` Scotch Whisky is invaluable to all Travellers & Sportsmen Abroad or at home who go in for Cycling - Golfing - Curling - Hunting - Coaching - Yachting - Shooting - Fishing and there are delightful little engravings of each of the sports listed and the addresses of the Pattisons company.[2]

The atlas also contained a number of town and city plans including that of Plymouth and Devonport which has been included here. 

Bartholomew Imperial Map 6a-c (Royal Atlas) 

Size: 320 x 425 mm (each). SCALE 4 MILES TO AN INCH (12 = 75 mm).               

Three maps cover Devon. Each map has ROYAL ATLAS OF ENGLAND & WALES (AaOS) with SECTION (Roman numerals) (area covered) (CaOS) and PLATE (number) (EaOS). Signature: John Bartholmew & Co., Edinr. Delt (EeOS). A key (BeOS) to different categories of roads.

A. SECTION XXV, BARNSTAPLE – PLATE 44: The coast is shown from Trevose Head at Padstow as far as the The Foreland in the east and south including Moreton Hampstead.

 

B. SECTION XXVI, EXETER – PLATE 45: The coast is shown from Countisbury as far as Burnham in the north and from Teignmouth to Portland Bill in the south. The map covers everything east of Chulmleigh and north of Newton Abbot.

 

C. SECTION XXXI, PLYMOUTH – PLATE 50: The coast is shown from Fowey as far as Otterton and. The map covers everything south of Launceston and Moreton Hampstead. Two insets show Plymouth and Tor Bay in more detail (2 miles to the inch). 

1. 1900  Royal Atlas Of England & Wales

                London. George Newnes. 1900.      KB.              

As well as the three maps covering the county, Bartholomew also included a map of the Plymouth area in the section at the back of the Royal Atlas for town and city plans.  Although clearly not taken from the Imperial Map it has been included here.

The map is an extremely close copy of the map used by G W Bacon from 1884 in his New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas and which was published in the same atlas but with other titles until about 1893 (see Victorian Maps of Devon B&B 134). The city plans were discontinued when the atlas appeared as Commercial and Library Atlas. The map below is the only one of several city plans included in both Bacon’s Ordnance Atlas and in Bartholomew‘s Royal Atlas which look in any way similar. The differences to Bacon’s earlier map are that the  map size is altered from 330 mm in the height and 460 mm width (although within the frame lines the height is almost identical). The title of Bacon’s map is PLAN OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE &c within the map area (De) with the scale. The right hand margin has been brought in, and the remaining areas almost filled in with new housing developments. Ford, previously little developed, is now comprehensively redrawn with new estates etc. Some roads and lettering are identical while some coastlines show minimal differences (cf Bacon 2).

No other map has been seen which Bartholomew took over from Bacon. Additionally, Bartholomew is not known to have copied the work of others, and did not copy any of the other city plans used by Bacon and clearly prepared new and very different plans for cities which he included. This map remains a bit of an anomaly.

 Bartholomew Imperial Map 6d (Royal Atlas) 

Size: 330 x 425 mm.   Scale 6 Inches to a Mile (1/2 = 75 mm).

Same format as the maps covering Devon. The map has ROYAL ATLAS OF ENGLAND & WALES (AaOS) with PLYMOUTH & DEVONPORT (area covered) (CaOS) and PLATE 69 (EaOS). Signature: John Bartholmew & Co., Edinr. Delt (EeOS). Fairly detailed map of the area covered by the two towns. Railway sations at Millbay and Friary as well as at Sutton Harbour. Mount Edgcumbe (Ae) and Mt Batten (Ee) and north to Outland (Ca).         (DevA).

 

1. 1900  Royal Atlas Of England & Wales ... Edited by J Bartholomew.

                London. George Newnes. 1900.      KB.

Bartholomew Imperial Map 1 - See below

Bartholomew Imperial Map 2 - W H Smith´s Exeter and Environs / Plymouth & Dartmoor

Bartholomew Imperial Map 3 - maps published by Houlston & Wright / Houlston & Sons

Bartholomew Imperial Map 4 - maps used by Milligan etc. for guides to Ilfracombe

Bartholomew Imperial Map 5 - hunting maps for Hiorns & Miller

Bartholomew Imperial Map 7 - Abel Heywood´s guide to Ilfracombe

Bartholomew Imperial Map 8 - Pearson´s Gossipy Guide

In addition Bartholomew produced two further maps of South Devon for W H Smith:

Bartholomew - W H Smith 1

Bartholmew - W H Smith 2

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[1] This became Bartholomew’s Tourist’s Map of England & Wales, 1040x820, still in use in the 1900s.

[2]  See Batten & Bennett; Victorian Maps; entry 175.