Item
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Catalogue reference: WO 78/2420/1
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Item
3 sheets of the Ordnance Survey six-inch County Series joined: parts of [Devon CXVII-CXVIII]...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/4367/14
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This record is about the 3 sheets of the Ordnance Survey six-inch County Series joined: parts of [Devon CXVII-CXVIII]... dating from 1861-1862 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 78/4367/14
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1861-1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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3 sheets of the Ordnance Survey six-inch County Series joined: parts of [Devon CXVII-CXVIII] and [Devon CXXIV], together covering the area between Fancy Wood, the Laira and King's Tamerton. Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile. All of the marginalia, including details of survey and production have been trimmed away. A piece if tracing cloth, bearing, in manuscript, a south-eastward extension, has been affixed to the face of the map. Manuscript title: 'Plan shewing the ground required to be contoured for the line of the North Eastern Defences Plymouth proposed in May 1861': Manuscript additions, coloured, reflecting this title, and marking out a grid to form an index to the sheetlines of the Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 County Series. Signed by Captain E F DuCane, Royal Engineers, 26 June 1861, and by William F Drummond Jervois, Assistant Inspector General of Fortifications, 29 July 1861. An additional note on contouring and scale is signed by Captain A de Courcey Scott, Royal Engineers, 13 February 1862.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- OS six-inch County Series
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:10560
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Printed
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19808734/
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