Old OS Map of South Devon in 1901 by Bartholomew - Exeter, Torquay, Dartmoor, Torbay industrial maritime hub linking quiet foothill towns to

linking quiet foothill towns to the dynamic spread of Los Angeles

particularly anyone tracing ancestors in villages such as Woking or Epsom before their later Victorian and twentieth-century growth

independent culture

each recorded with the towns

and period typography without distracting glare

Old OS Map of South Devon in 1901 by Bartholomew - Exeter, Torquay, Dartmoor, Torbay industrial maritime hub linking quiet foothill towns toHalf an inch to the mile was the scale that made John Bartholomew's name among Edwardian travellers, and Sheet 36 of his layered relief series for England and Wales covers South Devon at exactly that resolution. First issued in 1901, the sheet was aimed squarely at the cyclists and early motoring tourists who were beginning to explore the West Country in growing numbers, its colour bands marking height above sea level in the style that became the