Tourist Maps of Devon

 Besley 9  Dartmoor 2 Size: 520 x 395 mm.           SCALE OF MILES (1+5 = 100 mm). DARTMOOR. (underlined). Imprints: Printed & Published by H. Besley & Son, Directory Office, South S t . Exeter . ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL (CeOS). Title (Ee); North point (Aa); Scale bar of five lines (Ee). Villages and bartons in lower case, sites in upper case, eg tor or cross. Two line border (both lines have same thickness) with round shaping in corners. Large map folding into plain green boards. Concentrates on the area of the Forest with outlying areas left blank. Map is essentially identical to an earlier map of Dartmoor by Besley (see Besley 8 ) but better executed, crisper lines, stronger hill shading. 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, Moretonhampstead Branch (2 words) as are the...

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...