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35. Map of Dartmoor 35.1. Title: A Map of the Whole of the Dartmoor Forest, Devon, From Okehampton to Saltram, And from Lydford to Chagford : Date : [1840] Size : 340 x 610 mm. Imprint (s): Signature(s) : Engraved on two adjoining copper plates By John Cooke, Engr. and Geogr Extry to his late Majy in the 75th year of Age. Location(s) : StzB [1] , WDRO [2] . Bod reports a W Wood (1861) copy.   Comments: The title is top centre of the sheet with text on both sides beginning on the left hand side as A Sketch of Contents of Dartmoor . This finishes below the title and the right hand column is The Principal and Secondary Rivers etc. There is no bottom border to map. The map was reissued at least twice. William Wood was already using The Environs of Plymouth Devonport And Stone House by Cooke (see 33 ) at about the same time as this map of Dartmoor was reissued in 1850. The Environs was sold as a folding map in covers before it appeared in his guides, Rambles about Plymouth & D...