25. Map of the Borough of Plymouth

Title: Borough Of Plymouth,
Date: 1820.
Size: 220 x 295 mm.
Imprint(s): Pubd April 15. 1820. by Mrs E Nile, No. 48 Union St, Stonehouse with price (1s 6d) and ENGRAVING & COPPER-PLATE PRINTING OFFICE (below).
Signature(s): Engraved By John Cooke (in title panel).

Location(s): NLS, BL, BnF, DevA, WDRO.[1]

 
Comments: Below the title is a dedication on a tablet in vignette (Da) to the Mayor, Commonalty and Inhabitants signed by John Cooke, Engraver. The inclusion of the price makes it apparent that the map was sold separately (cost 1s 6d). However, three copies (i.e. at NLS and BL as well as in a private collection) of Interesting Particulars, relative to that Great National Undertaking, the Breakwater, a joint publication of John Cooke in Stonehouse and J Johns of Plymouth Dock include this map (see entry 28).[2]
This is the first map to show only Plymouth and, although the houses are shown as blocks and not individually, is quite detailed and each street is shown. The city clearly expands westwards as far as the Theatre Hotel and the Athenaeum building, both only recently opened and built to John Foulston´s plans. South of this we have the Intended New Square.
An asterisk on Union St. identifies the premises of the Copper Plate Printing Office. The Dartmoor Railway is shown meeting the New Turnpike at the Laira (note gentle curve south-eastwards) and the branch to the quarries is shown. The coastal shading is well executed and strongly conveys how steep and unapproachable the coast is. Just a few dwellings suggest the expansion of Plymouth with New Town just south east of Five Fields, a well-known feature along the Tavistock Road to the north.

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[1] The DevA copy is shelf no. LM B/PLY/1820/COO. The WDRO copy is part of the Pleydell Estate Papers including a mix of documents relating to the construction of the Lary (Laira) Bridge etc. and a copy of the Borough map (illustrated: 69/M/6/517) was reproduced as a facsimile and is listed by various libraries. The NLS and BL copies of the Borough map of Plymouth are bound in Interesting Particulars; a third copy was offered for sale by Patrick Pollack in 2024. The BL copy is 533.e.30.(9.); the BnF copy is online (thumbnail at FRBNF40734607); NLS shelf no. is 3.603(4).

[2] Some libraries catalogue this under Rennie and Whidbey as the text of their report is reprinted together with extracts from a government report of 1812. The two maps were completed 1819 and 1820, but there is an Advertisement dated January 1821.

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26. Plan of the Three Towns drawn by S Elliott

26.1. Title: Plan Of The Towns & Harbour Of Plymouth, Dock, Devonport, Morice-Town, Stoke, And The Environs, In The County Of Devon.
Date: 1820.
Size: 375 x 515 mm.
Imprint(s): Survey'd Drawn & Published by S Elliott. Landsurveyor &c Orchard Place Plymouth.
Signature(s): Engraved by John Cooke, Stonehouse, Plymouth, 1820.

Location(s): WDRO[1], DoC[2], KB. 

 
Comments: The second plan published in 1820, this is only one of two maps of the town(s) where we can be sure of the surveyor. T Richards of Totnes was responsible for the 1810 Dock plan and S Elliott is given here as Land Surveyor and the publisher of the map.[3] He also surveyed and drew the plan of Edgcumbe Park (24A). In this map all three towns are shown for the first time since the 1817 chart but this plan clearly shows the urban area whereas the chart was possibly for mariners.
The area of Dock is similar to that in Cooke´s previous plans but the Torpoint Ferry is included. No coastal shading here but a small amount elsewhere. Areas such as Stoke and Stonehouse are clearly shown for the first time.
The area of Plymouth itself is similar to that in Cooke´s Borough plan of 1820 (25) but whereas the former is an attractive representation with the majority of streets named the second is a surveyor´s map with letters for each street and feature and a large Reference panel. In many ways a simpler plan even omitting the New Town or the railway, for example. The Copper Plate Print Off., on the other hand, is given its own identification letter (h in Stonehouse). 

26.2. DEVONPORT replaces DOCK in both the title and as the heading to Reference section B (as a consequence Morice-Town in the title has been rewritten slightly further to the right). Date removed by Cooke´s signature. Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway added from LARY (was LAIRA in earlier edition) across to Rope Walk at Sutton Pool. The line of the Intended New Road to Lary Bridge added as well as the Railway Granite Works. Generally more streets named.   DevA .

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[1] This map was reproduced in facsimile in 2008 published by Plymouth Library Services; however, the original is not listed in their on-line catalogue. Following libraries have a facsimile copy; NLW, NLS and CUL. Utrecht University has a copy, dissected and laid on linen. Devon Archives state 2 is (OM B/PLY/1825/ELL).

[2] Sarah Bendall in Dictionary of Land Surveyors has the entry The Water of Tamar (Plymouth, Stonehouse Dock, Morice Town & Stoke) with a street plan and index. The map is reputed to be in the Duchy of Cornwall collection but cannot be traced. Despite the date of 1792-96 given, it is probably an edition of this map.

[3] John Cooke never used the term surveyor for himself. On his 1824 map we do find geographer in the title. However, WDRO used to have some papers relating to the Woollcombe family of Hemerdon (710/1031) and noted John Cooke, engineer and surveyor in their catalogue. These papers have been returned to the family.  The 1824 chart (31) was also among the Woollcombe family papers (710/1025). The National Archives lists this as a Hydrological Chart.

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27. Map of Plymouth also showing cross-section of the Breakwater

27.1. Title: Cooke’s Guide To Plymouth Sound And Breakwater. 

Date: 1819 [1821].

Size: 150 x 140 mm inside border (185 mm total).

Imprint(s): Pub^d for & sold by M^rs E Nile, 48, Union Street, Stonehouse, Aug 12, 1819.

Signature(s): Eng^d by John Cooke.

Location(s): NLS, KB.[1]

 

Comments: A much simplified plan of the three towns but still similar in some ways to the chart of 1817 with a plan of the breakwater below it. Although dated 1819 the first examples seen were included in a later work. Two copies found in editions of Interesting Particulars, relative to that Great National Undertaking, the Breakwater, Plymouth Dock; J Johns: Stonehouse; John Cooke. (1821). Note: some copies of this work have a different map, Borough of Plymouth (see 25 above).

Below the bottom border is a Transverse section of the Breakwater and note on first stone being laid in 1812 and two further lines of text referring to the Dartmoor Railway: The first Rail was laid to the Plymouth & Dartmoor Rail Road by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Augt 12, 1819. Left of this is the imprint. Right of this is the signature. Scale - Nautic Mile (1 = 23 mm). The directions on the breakwater sketch are face to the sea and the inside.

27.2. The same map and plan appeared in the following works with the new title New Guide to Plymouth Sound and BreakwateR. The imprint now reads: Devonport. Published by J. Johns, No 56, Fore Street. Cooke´s signature removed. The map scale now reads Statute Mile. The note on Tyrwhitt has been erased. The transverse section has been slightly altered: directions on orientation are now given as Facing the Ocean and Facing Plymouth & Devonport. 

In
 The Tourist's Companion Being a Guide to Devonport, Stoke, Morice-Town, Stonehouse and Plymouth published Devonport by J Johns: London by Baldwin and Cradock. 1828.    KB[2].

The Stranger’s Guide to Plymouth, Devonport, Stonehouse, Stoke, Morice-Town, and Vicinities Plymouth. E Nettleton. (1828). DevA, KB.
 

The Tourist's Companion; Being a Guide to Devonport, ..., by John Sanford  
Devonport. W Colman. (1830.)     BL, TQ.

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[1] Note that some libraries catalogue this under Rennie and Whidbey as the text of their report is reprinted together with extracts from a government report of 1812. NLS 3.603(4): other libraries hold this work but only identify “maps”. The two maps were completed 1819 and 1820, but there is an Advertisement dated January 1821. The NLS and BL copies both have Cooke´s Borough map of Plymouth bound in.

[2] The cover title is Sanford´s Devonport & Plymouth Guide (publisher´s printed boards). The 1830 edition also included Cooke 20.3.

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28. First Plans of the Breakwater

28. Title: Two plans of the breakwater being built at Plymouth. The upper plan: PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER. When finished. The lower plan: Transverse section of the Breakwater as finish'd.
Date: 1820 [1821].
Size: 125 x 172 mm.

Imprint(s):): Aug^t 12^th 1820.  Pub^d by M^rs E Nile, 48 Union Street, Stonehouse, Ply^mo under complete plan.
Signature(s): Engraved by John Cooke Stonehouse Ply^mo.
Location(s): BL, NLS, KB, P, (DevA).[1]

 

Comments: This plan was included in Interesting Particulars, relative to that Great National Undertaking, the Breakwater, published in Plymouth Dock by J Johns and also in Stonehouse by John Cooke. The signature is below upper scale: Scale is 50 + 1000 yards to 102 mm. Lower Scale is 100 + 100 feet is 85 mm. [2]

The Interesting Particulars is in a rather slim, but nevertheless, interesting publication. The first section is devoted to reprinting earlier texts such as the original report of John Rennie and Joseph Whidbey to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty from April 21^st 1806. This is given verbatim and takes the bulk of the work. The Interesting Particulars always contains this plan but copies seen have two different extra maps bound in (see 25 and 27).

The Estimate which follows puts the projected cost at just over 1 million pounds making it probably the most expensive project of this type known. A Further Report by Rennie to the commissioners follows. After a letter from Mr Rennie to J W Croker of April 15^th 1811 there is a further estimate signed by W Fawkener. The only section representing a contribution by the authors seems to be the final four pages with a rather sensational Grave of the Fleet! in very large letters dominating the opening page.

In: 
Interesting Particulars, relative to ... the Breakwater.
Plymouth Dock; J Johns: Stonehouse; John Cooke. 1821.[3]

Copy of Interesting Particulars showing map Cooke´s Guide (27) and text by the authors.

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[1] Another copy is at the National Archives at Kew (MPH 1/287/3) filed together with papers preparing for Dawson’s work on the boundary changes of 1832.

[2] Note that some libraries catalogue this under Rennie and Whidbey as the text of their report is reprinted together with extracts from a government report of 1812. The two maps were completed 1819 and 1820, but there is an Advertisement dated January 1821. The NLS and BL copies both have the Borough map of Plymouth bound in.

[3] Preface dated January, 1821

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29. Map of the area around Plymouthfor 12 miles

29.1 Title: Map Of The Country Twelve Miles Round Plymo DOCK in circular panel.
Date: 1821.
Size: 220 x 285 mm.
Imprint(s): none.
Signature(s): none.
Location(s): P.  

Image copyright Celsus Books

Comments: The Panorama of Plymouth by Samuel Rowe appeared in 1821. Rowes (i.e. Rowe´s) would be the publisher Samuel Rowe (1793-1853) who was the son of an affluent local farmer. He had no desire to follow in his father´s footsteps and after a grammar school education and an apprenticeship in Kingsbridge he ran a bookshop in Plymouth. He went on to become a noted antiquary, being one of the first members (and one of the first secretaries) of the Plymouth Athenaeum, and to write what became the standard work on Dartmoor, his Perambulations. Later on in life he would become first minister in the church of St Paul at Stonehouse.

The scale is established by 5-mile squares and numbering along the borders. It shows the surrounding area from Seaton and St Ives in Cornwall as far east as Bigbury Bay and Ivybridge and showing the main roads in the region. From the south coast it stretches north to Walkhampton and Callington. Morwhellam Tunnel is shown but the Dartmoor Railway is not.

Two different states of the map have been seen in, apparently, concurrent issues of the work. Both title pages and contents are identical to both but one copy has been seen with map title referring to Plymouth Dock which seems to be an earlier version of title and lacks an imprint. Unfortunately, the one copy could not be inspected.

 
In The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe     
Plymouth. Rowes. 1821.

 

29.2: Title amended: MAP OF THE COUNTRY Twelve Miles Round PLYMOUTH. 

Imprint added (CeOS): Published for the Panorama of Plymouth by Rowes Whimple St. 1821. 

Signature added: Eng^d by J. Cooke Stonehouse below the title. Foliate design to circular title panel.

In The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe. 

Plymouth. Rowes. 1821. BL 10368.a.65, V&A, TQ, DEI, KB.

The Panorama of Plymouth ... By Samuel Rowe - Second Edition

Plymouth. Rowes. (1830*). DevA (sB/PLY 1/1827/ROW), KB.

   

This later edition has an extra illustrated page consisting of a small sketch map of the area as well as sketches of the types of boats used in the construction of the breakwater (see below).

              

NOTES:

P - Copy on sale at Celsus Books, 8 Royal York Crescent, Bristol, BS8 4JZ in October 2023.
* This Second Edition is usually dated to 1827 on the basis of a tomb inscription reproduced on page 112 of the second section (Excursions). However in section one there is a footnote on page 201 referring to the Appendix. Here, on page vi, there is a section on Eldad Chapel which was finally completed in 1830 for the Rev. John Hawker and described as "in the Gothic style ... presents a pleasing object from various parts of the neighbourhood."

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30. Cooke´s Second Breakwater Plans

30.1. Title: Two plans of the breakwater at Plymouth. The upper plan: COOKE’S PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER. The lower plan: TRANSVERSE section of the Finished part of the BREAKWATER.
Date: 1823.
Size: 190 x 320 mm.
Imprint(s): see signature.
Signature(s): Taken , Engraved and Published by John Cooke 48, Union Street, Stonehouse, Plymo and dated August 21^st 1823.
Location(s): BL.[1]

 

Comments: This second sheet with two plans of the breakwater has a scale of 1000 yards = 170 mm for the upper plan (from above) and a scale of 100 + 100 feet = 135 mm (tranverse section). There is an added note: The first stone was laid August 12^th 1812. 

This map first appeared in 1823, possibly as a single sheet plan. This is a much larger and much changed variation of Cooke´s first breakwater plan (see 28 above which is 125 x 172 mm). The breakwater is now seen from the other side and there is more detail (e.g., hatching is designed to show stages in completion) but certain characteristics are retained (e.g. First stone laid, or tide markings). The plan also has a list of tonnages of stone added to the breakwater during certain years from 1820 to 1823.

The Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide is a strange little volume[2]. The title page clearly states that this plan is part of the contents: Two Half-Sheet Copper Plates to Elucidate. As the breakwater plan is in two halves, this is what was alluded to. The contents are: alphabetical list of streets (pp. 5-9), alphabetical list of towns and places for the Traveller or Tourist (10-11), particulars of Plymouth Breakwater (12-16), followed by Table of discount, Table of money interest and a Table of commission (total of 22 pages). 

Bound in

The Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide to the Three Towns
Stonehouse. John Cooke. 1823.

Later Edition:

Signature(s): Taken, Engraved and Published by John Cooke 82, Union Street, Stonehouse, Plymo and dated August 21^st 1828. 

Comments: Seen both as a loose sheet and bound in to another work. The breakwater plan in this state is reported at the Duchy of Cornwall archives as a loose sheet but has also been seen included in John Cooke´s Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide. This has the added imprint on the title page: Published and sold by John Cooke, Map & Chart Engraver, and Geographer Extraordinary to HRH The Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral. 

30.2. Date in title changed to 1828. The plan also has extra tonnage of stone added to the breakwater during 1824. Imprint: Published by John Cooke 82, Union Street. 

a) Loose sheet – sold separately (price 1s.).   DoC[3].

b) Bound in The Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide to the Three Towns
Stonehouse. John Cooke. 1828.    KB, PPL.

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[1] BL Maps 2147.(1.).
[2] The title page makes it clear there should be two half-sheet copper plates to elucidate - i.e., this plan. However, the author´s copy has a second map tipped in: Cooke´s Stranger´s Guide, see entry 32.
[3] Pasted into a scrapbook with title Plymouth together with two other maps by Cooke, Library D/b/9.

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31. Chart of Plymouth Sound with the Three Towns

Title: Cooke’s Chart of Plymouth Sound, and General Guide to Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse  in panel slightly right of top centre.
Date: 1824.
Size: 540 x 420 mm.
Imprint(s): Published Oct^r 25, 1824 by JOHN COOKE ENGRAVER & GEOGRA^R and there is the added information that Cooke was (late engraver to the Admiralty) 48, Union St., Stonehouse Plym^o.
Signature(s): see above.
Location(s): BL, NMM, WDRO, KB.[1]

Comments: There is a note above top border: UNDER THE patronage OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PLYMOUTH. Further imprint (right of title): Entered at Stationer´s Hall, London. Price 3s 6d. Border on three sides, no border at bottom.

This is a fairly large and detailed chart covering an area from the entrance of the Lynher (Aa) to just east of Efford (Ea) with Rame Head (Ae) and the Mewstone in border (Ee). The breakwater appears virtually central. On the one hand, it is a mariner´s chart with much information that would be beneficial to sailors entering the port, but on the other hand, the three towns are presented in enough detail to see their respective sizes and orientation. Even some buildings and streets clearly shown, e.g. The Athenaeum and Theatre.

This chart is very similar in style to the Chart ... Taken 1817 (see Cooke 22). Top right is a vignette of Tor House which would be a good aid in guiding a vessel through the dangerous rocks and a sight line is drawn The Eastern or Sedley´s Channel (approach). The Western Channel has a sight line marked as far as an obelisk to the left of the Citadel. The Panel of Leading Marks (Ad) has comprehensive instructions for sailors entering the harbour. What looks like the names of ships at anchor (e.g. Vanguard, Mallard or Asia) are in fact the names of buoys and each had a specific colour or colour combination. The coastal shading is the most comprehensive and detailed of all Cooke´s work.

Joseph Whidbey was the chief engineer of the breakwater building under Sir John Rennie and Mr Whidbey´s House is marked at Bovisand Bay. 

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[1] BL Maps 2140.(3.) and G.20269; NMM (G 233:2/146); WDRO.  KB copy in a slipcase with James Wyld imprint and label.

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32. Cooke´s Pocket Plan of the Three Towns

32. Title: COOKE`S STRANGER`S GUIDE OR POCKET PLAN of the three Towns OF PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT AND STONEHOUSE.
Date: 1827.
Size: 260 x 365 mm.
Imprint(s): Pubd Octr 1st 1827 by John Cooke 82 Union Street Stonehouse Plymo. Pr. 1s.6d. – Entd at Stationers Hall.
Signature(s): See imprint.
Location(s): see below.[1]

 

 

Comments: Attractive triangular patterned border. This is both a more detailed and an untidier looking map. Cooke or the artist who drew the plan has attempted to show more landscape features and there is a large amount of hill shading as well as hachuring along the coast. The Block House is now sat upon a small hill. Coastal shading has been included around Dock and there are large outcrops of rock in the harbour at the mouth of Mill Bay.

Urban development is shown and Stoke and New Town are taking shape. The Gas Works appear just before Stonehouse. Note the sudden change of direction of the Dartmoor Railway as well as the coats of arms of the Three Towns.

This seems to have been sold separately but is also found bound in to a work by Cooke. The title page refers to two half-sheet copper plates to elucidate – i.e., Cooke 30.2. However, besides the loose sheet, the only other two known examples of this plan were both tipped in to this volume: Published and sold by John Cooke, Map & Chart Engraver, and Geographer Extraordinary to HRH The Duke of Clarence, Lord High Admiral.

 
a) Broadsheet map sold separately, price 1 shilling and sixpence.   DoC.[2]
 
b) In The Traveller’s Directory, and Stranger's Guide to the Three Towns
Plymouth. John Cooke. 1828.   DevA, KB.

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[1] Other major libraries only have the facsimile published by WDRO in 2008 (illustrated).

[2] Duchy of Cornwall: Bound in a scrapbook with two other plans with title Plymouth (Library D/b/9).

     

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33. Large map of Plymouth and surrounding areas

33.1. Title: THE ENVIRONS OF PLYMOUTH DEVONPORT AND STONE HOUSE. Added title below this: A Companion to the Different Guides of the Neighbourhood. The title itself is within a lozenge (Ae) with two notes within its borders: on 4 Plates (top) and to Subs.5s. Sellg. Pr. 7s (bottom).
Date: [1828].
Size: Printed on four plates, each c. 246 x 273 mm. When combined map size is c. 485 x 550 mm.

Imprint(s): Engraved & Sold by John Cooke Union Stt Stonehouse below title in lozenge.
Signature(s): see above.
Location(s): see below.

Comments: This completed map is made up of four sheets (Plates) as described in John Cooke´s Proposals and in his letter to the Mayor, Pridham. Each plate has a piano key border on two sides and a plain two-line border on the ‘joining’ sides. A note above the border reads PLATE. 1. (2, 3, or 4). Scale of Statute Miles (2 = 49 mm) below title lozenge.

PLATE.1 - Portwrinkle to the Mew Stone and north to St Budeaux
PLATE.2 - continues north to Tavistock,

PLATE.3 - continues east to Avon Mouth,

PLATE.4 - completes the rectangle to Dartmeet.

Comments: The maps are well detailed and owe much to the Ordnance Survey while omitting all hachuring. The use of two separate titles at an early stage (states 1 and 2 below) is confusing, as is the order of printing. The plates were obviously prepared without two-mile squares forming a grid and centred on Plymouth. The reference to this, added vertically along the north-south grid line below Plymouth was also added about this time. The composite map held at WDRO seems to be a mixture.

Although most often seen combined to form a map from all four sheets, two separate versions of the “western” section were issued. When the guide books appeared they used a combination of plates 1 and 2 to form one map (western section). When the plates were included in The Three Towns Almanack for 1861, 1865 and 1868 the western section was extended slightly to include the mouth of the River Yealm (extended western section). Folding maps typically combined all four plates.

33.1. 1830 Four Plates combined on one sheet (485 x 550 mm). Title lozenge reads: on 4 Plates (above) and to Subs.5s. Sellg. / Pr. 7s. (below). Main title as above but continues as A Companion to the Different Guides of the Neighbourhood. No 2-mile grid and no note on the lines or squares.

 
The Environs of Plymouth Devonport And Stone House
Stonehouse. John Cooke. (1830). BL[1].

33.1A. Four Plates on one sheet. The 2 eastern plates have a two-mile grid but no explanation. WDRO.

33.1B. Plate 1 only (i.e. the southwest plate). The title lozenge now reads: On 12 Plates above title and Each Plate by Subscription Price 1s6d (see illustration) and main title continues Also the neighbourhood of Exeter with the coast and other principal roads, and all the new important communications by way of Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torquay, Paignton &c. to Plmyo (all capitals). Grid present with explanation. Utrecht Univ.

33.2. Maps combined on one sheet (485 x 550 mm). The title lozenge as 33.1A: On 12 Plates above title and Each Plate by Subscription Price 1s6d (see illustration) and main title continues Also the neighbourhood of Exeter ... (all capitals). Grid present.  KB.

33.3. 1840 Map issued in two vertical sheets (of 2 plates) with the borders adjusted accordingly. Title re-engraved: THE ENVIRONS OF Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport. Imprint now: Published by William Wood Fore Street, Devonport omitting price etc. North point added (Be). The breakwater strengthened and railway shown into Plymouth with Mutley Tunnel.

 
The Environs of Plymouth Devonport And Stone House. 

Devonport. W Wood. (1840). WDRO[2].

33.4. 1850 Map now issued on one sheet, 490 x 554 mm, piano key border all round. In covers:

Twenty Miles around Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse. 

Devonport. W Wood. (1850). DevA.

33.5. 1854 Western section only; signs of single line border to right. The planned CORNWALL RAILWAY already shown (opened 1859) as single line compared to three-line of completed railway. Railway shown through Stonehouse as far as Mill Bay. In:

The Stranger's Handbook ... Seventh Edition ... with map of the towns.
Devonport. W Wood. (1854). KB[3].

33.6. 1858 Western section only; Cornwall Railway shown but not named. Railway to Plymouth stops on outskirts. In:

The Stranger’s Handbook ... . Seventh Edition ... with maps and illustrations. 

Devonport. W Wood. (1858). WDRO.

33.7. 1859 Complete map: the railway as far as Tavistock is shown (opened 1859).

Rambles about Plymouth & Devonport 

Devonport. W Wood. (1859). KB[4].

33.8. 1861 Extended western section. This edition only has addition to title: Shewing the existing and PROPOSED FORTIFICATIONS Published by William Wood 52 Fore Street. Devonport. A note added below (CeOS): The Sites for Works recommended by Royal Commission - coloured red, Existing Works & those in Progress - coloured green. The new forts are added and named. In: 

Three Towns' Almanack. 1861. 

Devonport. W Wood. 1861. DevA.

33.9. 1861 As 33.7. Proposed Tamar, Kit Hill and Callington Railway shown pecked (begun 1864). Folding map backed with card with full title:

WOOD’S MAP of the Neighbourhood around Plymouth and Devonport, Showing the New Forts, Walks, Rides & Drives, Rivers & Railways. 

Devonport. W Wood. (1861). TQ.

33.10. 1865 Extended western section. Date 1865 added to title which includes line SHEWING THE NEW FORTS. New imprint (BaOS): Presented with the Three Towns' Almanack for 1865. Notes outside border; Launceston & Okehampton Line (opened 1865) (CaOS) - Coswick River (DaOS) - Aveton Gifford (EeOS) - Avon River (EcOS) - Avon Mouth, Bantham & Thurlestone (EeOS).

Three Towns' Almanack 1865. 

Devonport. W Wood. 1865. DevA[5].

33.11. 1865 Complete map now dated below title imprint. No reference to the almanack or forts (i.e. not in title). Defence lines added and numbered. In:

Rambles about Plymouth & Devonport. 

Devonport. W Wood. 1865. KB[6].

Also issued as folding map in covers:

Twenty Miles around Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse. 

Devonport. W. Wood. 1865. KB.

33.12. 1868 Extended western section. Presented with ... (CaOS). with date 1868 added.

Three Towns' Almanack 1868. 

Devonport. W. Wood. 1868. DevA[7].

33.13. 1875 Complete map dated below title imprint. No reference to the almanack. Cover label: Defence lines not numbered (this edition only).

Twenty Miles around Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse. 

Devonport. W. Wood. 1875. KB.

33.14. 1880 As state 11. Tamar, Kit Hill and Callington Railway completed (opened 1872).

The Environs of Plymouth Devonport And Stone House 

Devonport. W. Wood. (1880). TM.

Also issued as folding map with cover title:

Map of the Neighbourhood Around Plymouth & Devonport 

Devonport. W. Wood. (1890). KB[8].

33.15. 1890 Railway to Prince Town (opened 1883).

Rambles and Excursions about Plymouth & Devonport. 

Devonport. Wood and Tozer. (1890)[9]. DevA, BL.

Title panels used from 1828 to 1880.
John Cooke imprints (top); William Wood (below).

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[1] BL Maps 2123. (52.). Copyright Trustees of the British Museum. Do not reprint without full citation. 

[2] The map seen at WDRO in the late 1990s is now missing. Francis Bennett had a photocopy.

[3] The Stranger’s Handbook to Plymouth Devonport And Stone House. Reference to October 1853 and Devonport New Workhouse erected in 1852-3-4 (page 96). The text was unaltered so this and the WDRO example may be in the wrong sequence. KB copy also has Wood 1 and 4 (see Tourist Maps of Devon).

[4] Full title (cover label only, no title page) ... with a tinted (sic) map, showing the highways, byeways, and railways.. Last date in text on p.27 is 1855 and there is reference to E R P Bastard (died 1856). The same text was used for several years so this edition could be earlier as well as later.

[5] Has various adverts on the reverse, e-g. Plimsaul and Western Mutual Insurance.

[6] Title and text is identical to the edition listed as 1856 above.

[7] The map is missing from the Almanack itself, however the map has been extracted and is stored as a flat map separately. The imprint makes it clear that the two belong together.

[8] Imprint on cover label: WOOD & TOZER 49 FORE STREET, DEVONPORT.[9] Copies have 111 pages and nine pages of adverts. Last text date on p.18: HRH Prince of Wales visits Apple Tree Cot in 1879 but before completion of Douglas’ Eddystone lighthouse. British Library copy is BL 10368.cc.19. DevA date this to 1880 but Wood & Tozer do not seem to have worked together before 1887.

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