Items (596 total)

Folded street plan, produced by the Exeter Information Bureau.

This presentation folder was gifted to the schoolchildren of Exeter in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. It included a modern copy of a map of Exeter originally engraved by Richard Izacke in 1677. Izacke's map was based…

Folded street plan in a red printed card cover. It including a key to railways, station and bus routes, as well as an index to streets. The date is unknown, but it is assumed to have been made in between the 1940s and 1960s, likely after the Second…

Folded chromo-lithograph plan of Exeter in red printed card cover.

Framed colour plan of Exeter, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. The plan is decorated with illustrations of the Guildhall, Exeter Cathedral, Northern Hay, the Post Office and St. Sidwells, drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles.

This detailed plan of Exeter was produced by John Wood for the Improvement Commissioners in the late 1830s. It shows individual plots, as well as ward and parish boundaries. A legend at the side lists public buildings and places of worship in the…

Town plan of Exeter on paper, engraved by William Schmollinger, with illustrations of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Castle, and the Exe Bridge by R. Brown. It includes a legend to public buildings and the parishes, churches and chapels.

A modern copy of a map by Dr. Thomas Shapter, printed in 'The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832' (1849). The first cholera outbreak reached England in the autumn of 1831 and arrived in Exeter in July 1832. Horizontal bars (1832), diamonds…

Framed plan of Exeter showing the existing boundaries (in green) and the proposed boundary changes (in yellow), produced by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, Royal Engineers. This plan was the result of the Reform Bill of 1831 and the Boundaries Act…

Plan of Exeter, engraved by John Roper under the direction of J. Britton from a drawing by I. Hayman. This plan was removed from 'The British Atlas...' (1810) by G. Cole and J. Roper. It was originally engraved in 1805 and printed in 'The Beauties of…

Framed plan of Exeter, engraved by Thomas Yeakell. The plan was published by Charles Tozer on 20 April 1792. It includes a legend to the churches in Exeter in the upper right corner and a dedication statement to the Mayor, Recorder, Sheriff,…

Strip map by John Ogilby. This item may have originally come from the atlas 'Britannia, volume the first' (2nd ed, 1675) or 'Itinerarium Angliae' (1675), or possibly from the 1698 reprint of 'Britannia'.

A plan of the city and suburbs of Exeter by Benjamin Donne or Donn. Donne was responsible for the first entirely new survey of Devon since the survey undertaken by Christopher Saxton in the 16th century. This plan was detached from Benjamin Donne's…

Colour map of Exeter by Rutger Hermannides, based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.