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]

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[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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