24. Plans of the intended Dartmoor Railway for Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt 24. Title: No title but there is a note: Line of intended rail road as laid from prison of war to Plymouth Harbour and lime rocks at Catwater ... on plate 2.   Date: [1819]. Size: One map on two sheets with no borders.  Plate 1 is c. 390 x 450 mm and Plate 2 is c. 270 x 360 mm. Imprint(s): None. Signature(s): Engraved by   John Cooke Stonehouse Plym o . below note above. Location(s): BL, KB . Also at WDRO, TCD , CUL, Gl, Bath and NLS . [1]     Comments:  Substance of a statement made to the Chamber of Commerce, Plymouth, the 3rd of November, 1818, concerning the formation of a rail road, from the Forest of Dartmoor to the Plymouth Lime-quarries, with additional observations, and a plan of the intended line  was compiled by  Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt to present before Parliament to gain support for his plans for a railway on Dartmoor. The simp...

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...