[Ordnance map of Devon]

Description

Printed map. "Published 11th. Octr. 1809, by Lt. Coll. Mudge, Tower." Visual scale [5 inches = 5 miles approximately]. Lieutenant Colonel William Mudge was the first effective director of the British Ordnance Survey. In 1803, he set up a temporary survey headquarters in Chudleigh, the nearest town to Ugbrooke House, the ancestral home of Robert Clifford, so that he could call upon Clifford's expertise and advice on the creation of map sheets covering Devon. On label: Ordnance map Devonshire, No 25, Launceston Dartmoor Moreton Hampstead, Liskeard Tavistock Ashburton, Bratton Clovelly Cornwood Buckfastleigh, Callington, Saltash". Acquired by McMaster University in 1969 as part of the Lord Cholmondeley collection.