Tourist Maps of Devon

  Cockrem 7   Please note: New  Cockrem 7   Cockrem´s Guide Book to Torquay  – Map 2   Was previously Westley 2 The first edition of  Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay  appeared in 1856 [1]  but did not contain any map. There appear to be two editions of this: an illustrated version with up to 14 views by Rock & Co. (240pp.); and a cheaper verion with illustrations but lacking sections such as geology, climate etc. (163 pp.). There was no map included which is surprising, given that Cockrem had already published three good maps (Cockrem 3, 4 and 5) which could have been exploited. A revised edition was published circa 1865. [2]  This edition included two new maps, both supplied by Stanford in London (see next entry). The guide now had 208 pages and just one frontispiece illustration. Reprinting took place in circa 1870 (last date in text p. 20 with Belgrave Congregational Church) and circa 1875 (p. 13 to do with the Petty Sessions...

  Cockrem 4   Owen Angel [1] was born at Totnes, Devon, about 1821. He married Mary Ann Brimacombe at Exeter in 1843 and they had a daughter and three sons. Their daughter Marian Angel (1844-1883) was the only child to survive to adulthood, and she married a land surveyor George Heath (1840-1905), and lived at Bedford Circus, near Exeter. Originally Owen Angel started working in Exeter in the early 1840s as an engraver and a printer and became a lithographer in the mid-1840s.  The 1851 census shows him living at 94 Fore Street, and working as a lithographer employing 3 men and 6 apprentices; one of these apprentices was George Palmer   who l ithographed the facsimile of the Norden map of Exeter in Oliver's History of Exeter  (1861). By January 1855 Angel had added photography to his repertoire, advertising " daily photographic portraits " in the Trewman's Exeter Flying Post , and listed additional premises at 1 Market Street.  Later the same year 5...

Cockrem 6   Please note: New Cockrem 6   Cockrem´s Guide Book to Torquay – Map 1   Was previously Westley 1 The first edition of Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay appeared in 1856 [1] but did not contain any map. There appear to be two editions of this: an illustrated version with up to 14 views by Rock & Co. (240pp.); and a cheaper verion with illustrations but lacking sections such as geology, climate etc. (163 pp.). There was no map included which is surprising, given that Cockrem had already published three good maps (Cockrem 3, 4 and 5) which could have been exploited. A revised edition was published circa 1865. [2] This edition included two new maps, both supplied by Stanford in London (see next entry). The guide now had 208 pages and just one frontispiece illustration. Reprinting took place in circa 1870 (last date in text p. 20 with Belgrave Congregational Church) and circa 1875 (p. 13 to do with the Petty Sessions Court built by W A Goss), bo...

  Cockrem 5   Although Cockrem’s map of Torquay and Teignmouth was only about 15 years old, he had a new map drawn up, possibly as he thought the emphasis on geology was no longer apt (see Cockrem 3 ). The new map was executed by Edward Appleton who had drawn a map of Torquay about the same time for Matthews (see Appleton ) and there are distinct similarities between the coastlines of both maps. W Spreat was chosen to do the lithographic printing. Edward Cockrem   died in 1872 and Westley took over his business including this map. Edward Appleton was an architect who worked for the local board of health as surveyor. He was listed at 2 Woodville, in Abbey Road, Torquay in Kelly’s Directory of Devonshire   for 1856. The first meeting house and library of Torquay Natural History Society was built by Appleton and housed the Freemason’s on the first floor. Constructed in 1857 it still survives as the Masonic Lodge. [1] In 1861 he was appointed Captain to the Volunteer ...