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 S r John S t , Aubyn, Bar t . 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, Oct r . 25 th . 1810 (as part of title). Signature(s): Engraved by John Cooke, London, late Eng r . 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 t...

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 b...

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...

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...

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 Bu...

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 Ne...