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500 years of Mapping Exeter: A collection of digitised maps of Exeter, 1587-1970s

How have Exeter's landmarks been represented? What was the purpose of the map? How and when did the city's boundaries expand? What in Exeter has changed, what has stayed the same - and why?

These are just some of the questions you might like to think about while looking at images of historic maps of Exeter that are held within the University of Exeter's Special Collections.

Click on the images or titles below to find out more about each map.

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Isca Danmoniorum... (1587)

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Civitas Exoniae... (1618)

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Excester in Engellandt (c 1638)

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Exonia: Excester (1661)

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The Road from Exeter to Barnstable & Thence to Ilfracombe co. Devon (c 1675)

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A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Exeter (1765)

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Plan of the City & Suburbs of Exeter (1792)

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Exeter (1810)

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Exeter (1832)

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Map of Exeter in 1832: Shewing the localities where the Deaths caused by Pestilential Cholera occurred in the years 1832, 1833, & 1834 (c 1834)

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The City of Exeter 1835 (1835)

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Plan of Exeter from actual Survey (1840)

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Exeter (c 1851-1854)

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Bacon's Large-Scale Plan of Exeter, with Street Index (c 1910)

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"Geographia" Large Scale Street Plan of Exeter (c 1940s-1950s)

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City of Exeter Town Map 1951 (1951)

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Exeter Official Street Plan (c 1970s)

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Exeter Official Street Plan (c 1970s)

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Copy of Richard Izack's 1677 map of Exeter, from a presentation folder for the schoolchildren of Exeter to mark the Silver Jubilee, 1977, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1977)