
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...