John Bartholomew 7 – for Abel Heywood Abel Heywood's series of Penny Guide Books included transfers from the Imperial Map . A map covering most of North Devon can be found in A Guide to Ilfracombe and Clovelly published by Abel Heywood and Son in Manchester in 1900 (compare to Imperial Map 4 ). Heywood, a bookseller and publisher of radical literature began his series of penny guides in 1866 with Buxton and Kent appearing in 1872. Abel Heywood was born in Prestwich, near Manchester, in 1810. [1] His family were poor, moreso after the father's death when Heywood was only five. As a result Abel received little formal education, and at the comparatively young age of 9, he became an apprentice to Thomas Worthington who owned a warehouse in High Street in Manchester. We know that Heywood attended the Bennett Street Sunday School, and later the Mechanics' Institute of which he was one of the first members. Despite his own limited access to education he...