27.     Robert Dawson II                                                                      1837

 

As a result of the boundary reforms effected in the 1830s, Robert Dawson had already completed one set of plans for proposed boundary changes in 1832 (see 24). In 1837 he prepared new maps and plans for Report of the Commissioners appointed to report and advise upon the Boundaries and Wards of certain Boroughs and Corporate Towns, (England and Wales)  Parts I – III. These included a sheet for Exeter which included two separate plans.

Reform was long overdue. Much of the findings of the revising barristers appointed to oversee the new Boundaries Act were based on the returns of the 1831 census, which showed a total population of 33,509. The Reform Act altered not only the electorate but also its size. In 1831 it was estimated that out of a male population of 12,683 a total of only 1,125 were eligible to vote. After the Reform Act some 2,952 electors were registered. In part this was reflected by the increase of the parliamentary borough from 2,400 to 4,600 acres as the maps show. 

Title: EXETER from the Ordnance Survey

Size: 320 x 180 mm shows two plans. One is at Scale 1 inch to a mile and the second plan at Scale 4 Inches to 1 Mile.

Signature:  R. K. Dawson Lt. R. E. 

There is a title, north point and two references (one to parishes and another to boundaries). A colour code is given for the wards and there are 2 scale bars. The two plans show the city as Dawson’s earlier map of 1832. The smaller plan shows the enlarged borough boundary and the four outer wards (note the new Hooker’s Ward). The larger plan shows the city and immediate surroundings in block form with the now two inner city wards Castle and Cathedral and the parishes although St. Thomas’s Parish is not named. Like Dawson’s earlier plan, there is no border.


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Illustration Reproduced by kind permission of Devon Archives & Local Studies - LM B/EXE/1832/DAW.

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