53. Freeman I 1887
Edward Augustus
Freeman (1823-1892) was a medieval and
constitutional historian famous for his History of the Norman Conquest. In 1887 the history
of Exeter appeared as one of the Historic
Towns series edited by Freeman
and the Rev. William Hunt and which actually included a
total of four maps. Besides the two maps included below, Freeman´s work
contained small reproductions of both Braun and Hogenberg (3) and a copy of Daniel Lysons´ representation of the very
early manuscript map of Henry VIII (see Lysons, 19). An Edward A Freeman wrote
a long section on architecture for inclusion in Baedeker´s Guides to Great Britain (this did not
include a map of Exeter until the 1900s).
Both of these maps were printed in Freeman’s History of Exeter: Historic Towns – Exeter by Edward A Freeman, DCL, LL D. which was published by Longmans, Green and & Co., of London, New York and Bombay in 1887 with a Second Edition of 1890 and a Third Edition in 1892 and 1901.
Title: EXETER 1886
Size: 245
x 160 mm with Scale of Feet (800 = 41
mm) (or 1 Mile = 270 mm).
Imprint: Longmans, Green, & Co., London, New York, and Bombay.
A simple street plan
covering only the central area from the bridge to St. Sidwell’s and from Queen
Street Station to the Devon & Exeter Hospital. Built up areas are shaded.
The city wall is shown with the old gates named and the line of the old bridge pecked. Note the
reference within the castle grounds that they belong to the County of Devon and
also a dashed line off the High Street and crossing South Street with a note Site of Ikenild Way.[1]
[1]
This may well be the route of a Roman Road, but the Icknield Way runs from
Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to Knettishall Heath in Norfolk and claims
to be the oldest road in Britain.
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