Name Index

To

Tourist's guide to South Devon:
rail, road, river, coast and moor (3rd ed)

London, Edward Stanford (1883) 130 pp.

by

Richard Nicholls Worth

Prepared by Michael Steer

Richard Nicholls Worth (1837-1896) was a popular Devon journalist, geologist, author and editor of guide books. He produced two guide books covering north and south Devon in 1878/79 and these were printed and published until 1894 with maps by Edward Stanford. The south sheet map had a further printed map of the county as an inset. R N Worth is known to have spent six months researching the geology of the L&SWR Tavistock to Plymouth route in 1889 and read a paper to the Devon Association at Tavistock later that year. Tourism was a product of the Victorian era, hugely developed through Edwardian times and generating thousands of fascinating books and photographs that together define the development of the massive industry we know today. The introduction of statutory holidays, the increasing wealth of the Victorian and Edwardian middle classes, and the expanding railway and steamship networks all helped develop the emerging tourist industry. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the Harvard University Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

There is a General Index to the Travel Guide, pp 131 to 134