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19. Map of Plymouth Dock for the St Aubyn family

19. Title: A Plan Of The Town Of Plymouth Dock, Part Of The Manor Of Stoke Damerell, In The Parish Of Stoke Damerell, In The County Of Devonshire. The Property Of Sr John St, Aubyn, Bart.
Date: 1810.
Size: 690 x 620 mm on a sheet 1020 x 680 mm. A Scale o 660 Feet or 1/8 of a Mile 
660 Feet = 128 mm.
Imprint(s): Surveyed, Drawn, and Published by T. RICHARDS, Totnes, Devon, Octr. 25th. 1810 (as part of title).
Signature(s): Engraved by John Cooke, London, late Engr. to the Admiralty.
Location(s): McMaster[1], WDRO[2].
 


Comments: Loose sheet, printed map showing building lots as shaded areas. The title is in an oval cartouche of oak leaves, with a coat of arms with motto above - IN SE TERRE – and imprint and signature below.[3]

The plan is very detailed and shows fairly graphically how Plymouth Dock was residential within a large rectangle surrounded by Dock Wall Street and Chapel Street to the west and east and by Prospect Row and Fore Street to south and north. To the west were the dockyards and to the east were the barracks. To the north of Fore Street and including Morice Square was a further residential area with one street leading to the Hamoaze along North Corner Street where there was a public landing place. Although not every alley is named it looks as though each house or building has been individually drawn by Richards and places such as John Street and Kerr Street clearly shown. Kerr Street (or Ker Street) appears incomplete and, indeed, it would be the work of John Foulston in the following 15 years to complete this area. What appears as a molehill could represent a ruined windmill as this place was known as Windmill Hill: later the famous Devonport Column would be erected here.

This is one of the few maps to mention Cooke’s link to the Admiralty.

A smaller copy of this would appear a year later (20).




[1] Research Collections, Accession # 3934. The map can be viewed at https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A21630. Illustration courtesy of the McMaster University, Toronto, Canada.
[2] Accession is 4237/4 or 710/1021 (Woollcombe papers) depending on catalogue used.
[3] The title wreath is almost identical to that on the Hendon map (8).

Link to Map 20.

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