22.     Wills / Hackett                                                                    1830

 


Title: PLAN OF The City of Exeter shewing the Lines of Road Proposed by Messrs. Coldridge & Vicars.

Size: 355 x 245 mm but no scale.

Imprints: W. Wills, Exeter and Hackett, Lithog. Exeter 

The plan shows two alternative routes proposed: Vicar’s line cut through the walls almost mid-way between North-gate and the Castle, joining the High Street south of the Guildhall; and Coldridge’s line came south of St. David's Hill and South-gate ending mid-way along North Street. Coldridge also had a branch outside the city to the London Inn (formerly the Oxford) just outside East-gate. This branch followed the line of the ‘west’ new road, first shown in Hayman’s plan of 1805. The end result was a compromise: Vicar’s road with modifications at the City entrance and the branch line to a junction with St. David’s Hill was adopted. Intriguingly, the plan predicts the building of the new basin and shows Exe Island as Horse Fair and Shilhay as Coal and Timber Yards.

Vicars and Coldridge had already worked together on a road between Wiveliscombe and South Molton circa 1824 (there is a copy at the National Archives).


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