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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