Acknowledgements



There are numerous books on Exeter, but to paraphrase the words of D’Urban and Mathew writing over a hundred years ago: Although a work on the [Maps of Exeter] has already been issued ... , it did not seem so thoroughly to exhaust the subject as to exclude another which should deal more fully with the numerous points of interest in the [County of Exeter].[1]
We would like to thank Anne Howard, Local Studies Librarian, of the Westcountry Studies Library in Exeter for her Foreword and are also highly delighted to have Dick Passmore, author of The Story of the Theatre Royal Exeter, write an introduction covering some of Exeter’s history. He has been actively interested in the history of Exeter for many years and kindly agreed to write a brief overview on the city and its growth over 300 years.
We would like to thank the Westcountry Studies Library in Exeter for their help and assistance, without which this book could not have been written. They have given their time and provided illustrations on so many occasions. This book is really dedicated to the all staff of the library.

Illustrations

 
5, 8*, 10*, 11*, 12, 13, 15*, 27, 30*, 37*, 38, 40, 43, 44, 45, 51* and 63* are reproduced by kind permission of the Exeter Westcountry Studies Library. Our thanks go to Katherine Dunhill of WSL for scanning those marked*. 
Please note that since original publication of Printed Maps of Exeter the West Country Studies Library has now reopened as Devon Archives and Local Studies under the South West Heritage Trust. All illustrations from their collection are Reproduced by kind permission of Devon Archives & Local Studies.
Documents held at Devon Archives are copyright. Copying, printing, reproducing or sharing images of them on this website is not permitted.
The link to the DA&LS website is https://swheritage.org.uk/devon-archives/
Permission 2020/SP/32


1, 22 and 23 are reproduced by kind permission of Devon Record Office, our thanks to John Draisey for his assistance.
29 is reproduced by kind permission of the Devon & Exeter Institute. Our thanks to Charles Fleming for taking the photograph.
47 is reproduced by kind permission of Malcolm Woodward.
 
All other illustrations are taken from maps in possession of the authors.
 
 
The Printed Maps of Devonshire 1575 – 1837 appeared in 1996 and listed the first 117 county maps of Devon to be printed. The continuation, The Victorian Maps of Devon 1838 – 1901, was published in 2000 and listed maps 118 – 182. Where reference is made to these maps in the text the relevant county maps will be noted as B&B followed by the particular catalogue number. Up-to-date versions of these two books are now on-line under fre access.
Numbers in brackets refer to maps in this cartobibliography.
 
November 2010 / November 2020
 

Francis Bennett                                                                                                                           Kit Batten
Menryn, Court Wood                                                                                                         Auerhahnweg 7
Newton Ferrers PL8 1BW                                                                                                   70499 Stuttgart
England                                                                                                                                        Germany

1D’Urban and Mathew; The Birds of Devon; published by R H Porter of London; 1892.

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