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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1
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MPC 1
This series contains maps, plans and architectural drawings, extracted from various series of records created or accumulated by the Duchy of Lancaster (DL). Many pieces were formerly held in the series DL 31. There is no common subject matter....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MPC 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series of records of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Date (When the record was created)
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16th century-19th century
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps, plans and architectural drawings, extracted from various series of records created or accumulated by the Duchy of Lancaster (DL). Many pieces were formerly held in the series DL 31.
There is no common subject matter. Many of the maps and plans relate to boundaries of manors and to extents and valuations of premises under special commissions of survey issued in suits pending in the Duchy Court. Counties principally represented are Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and Middlesex. Of particular note is MPC 1/50/1, dating from 1658, and showing Enfield Chase as divided between the Commonwealth and the Commons. The series includes the maps and plans made during special commissions.
As far as possible, places depicted on maps or drawings are identified in catalogue descriptions by the names given on, or contemporary with, the documents themselves, although spellings have been modernised and standardised to facilitate searching. Where there has been a significant change to the name of a place or that of the political or geographical area in which it is situated, the current name is usually given in brackets after the name taken from the document. If it has not been possible to identify the place named, the name given on the map or drawing is noted in inverted commas. If no place is named, and the location cannot be identified, this is noted explicitly in the description. Places now in the London area, but outside the City of London, are identified according to the county or borough in which they were situated at the date when the map or plan was produced.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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282 portfolio(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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Drawn or printed on paper unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1933-1987
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Most of the maps and plans in this series are described in Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office. I: British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, HMSO, 1967). A list of all documents transferred by the Duchy of Lancaster Office in 1868 was printed as an appendix to the 3oth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, and a list was published in List of the Records of the Duchy of Lancaster preserved in the Public Record Office (PRO Lists and Indexes XIV).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15019/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: MPC
Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series of records of the Duchy of Lancaster
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