40.     Featherstone & Co. II                                                                    1858

 


The actual dating of this smaller map by Featherstone is not known but seems to be a few years later than the large plan executed in 1850 (see 37 above). On the one hand the reservoir is still portrayed as a single basin although two filter beds had been added in 1854 but it is probably the only map to include the Exeter & Yeovil railway line as projected. As the actual South Western line was completed in 1860 the map must have shortly pre-dated the arrival of the new line. 

Title: MAP OF EXETER.                        

Size: 185 x 233 mm with Scale of Feet 1000 = 40mm (or 1 Mile = 211 mm).

Imprint:  Featherstone Lithographer 246 High Street Exeter. There is a note below this: Circulating Library Bedford Street. See below (all top left in plain panel). 

Note the inset plan showing the location of Featherstone’s Circulating Library and their printing office (bottom left). There is a scale bar, North point (west is at top) and two tables of Reference – Churches and Chapels. The prison shape has been altered from that in Featherstone’s earlier plan, and now has the correct H form. The South Devon Railway is clearly shown and the Intended Exeter & Yeovil Railway.

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