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34. Cooke´s New Plan of the Three Towns

34.1. Title: COOKE'S New Plan of the Three Towns of PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, AND STONEHOUSE. Price (1s 6d in sheets) above title.
Date: 1834.
Size: 252 x 445 mm.
Imprint(s): Published for the Proprietor Feby 1st 1834 and Sold at No. 82 Union Street, Stonehouse.Signature(s):
Location(s): BL, KB (illustrated), DevA*, NLS*, NA, DoC[1].


Comments: Detailed plan stretching from Torpoint (Aa) to Breakwater Quarries (Ee) and sold as a loose sheet. To the right of the map is a separate block with border containing a panel which begins: Borough of Devonport and Stonehouse. The Commissioners Appointed to Divide the New Boroughs ... . This is followed by a list of churches and chapels and finishes with the imprint noted above. The panel is missing in maps marked*; this and the wide Grecian "piano key" border (broken at Turnchapel Dockyard) gives rise to different library measurements, e.g. BL (520 x 250 mm) and NLS (232 x 420 mm).

This New Plan has less of the shading of the Stranger´s Guide but concentrates on the new division into wards. Hence the area of New Town is now Frankfort Ward and the part lower down, covering the southeast section of the city, is now Andrews Ward. More urban development is shown especially where the city and towns are expanding. The area south of Five Fields Lane is now occupied and at the western end and there is a burial ground and new residential housing at Wyndham Place surrounding Eldad Chapel. This small church was built for John Glanville Hawker and his congregation after they were forced to move from Stoke Damerel. The burial ground was begun c.1824 for the use of the Royal Naval Hospital on the other side of the road to Stoke. In the 1840s Brunel chose this as the site of a railway station but it became known as No Place Field when an opponent claimed it “was no place to build a station!”[2]


34.2 1841 Addition of the NEW / EDITION either side of price (Ee) and date 1841 added in title panel. The text in the panel (right) has been amended to include the new ward arrangement; Devonport is now a Borough.. There is a new imprint: Published for the Proprietor Feby 1st 1841 and Sold at No.50 Union-Place, Stonehouse.  Given the new address and the fact that we know Cooke was still resident at 82 Union Street when he died in 1845, it would appear he had these printed but had an agent to sell them for him.

Loose sheet sold separately. P[3].




[1] Pasted into a scrapbook with title Plymouth together with two other maps by Cooke, Library D/b/9.
[2] Both stories at https://plymouthhistoryfestival.com/2020/05/27/walks-with-history-victoria-park-2/.
[3] I would like to thank Quentin B Spear for bringing this state to my attention.


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