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London Water Supply. Three sheets of plans. (i) Ordnance Survey one-inch New Series...
Catalogue reference: WORK 38/137
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This record is about the London Water Supply. Three sheets of plans. (i) Ordnance Survey one-inch New Series... dating from 1879 in the series Office of Works and successors: Miscellaneous Plans and Drawings. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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WORK 38/137
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Date (When the record was created)
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1879
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Description (What the record is about)
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London Water Supply. Three sheets of plans.
(i) Ordnance Survey one-inch New Series England and Wales sheet 270. Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile. Electroyped and published, 1876. Manuscript additions, in coloured ink, showing the positions of proposed reservoirs at Hampton, Combe Warre and Whitgift and [?a pipe] running from Hampton to Roehampton. Stamped 'Southwark & Vauxhall Water Company'.
(ii) Two similar plans showing lands purphsed by the Southwark [?& Vauxhall] Water Company. Reference tables to acreage and cost. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Both in ink drawings, coloured, one on tracing paper and one on paper, both damaged.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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LON/GEN: SER/250; Reg No A/8/297; TS 61
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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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Public Record(s)
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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- OS one-inch New Series England and Wales
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
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66 cm x 45.5 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
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1:63360
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Maps and plans
- Resources
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2029530/
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WORK 38
Office of Works and successors: Miscellaneous Plans and Drawings
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Office of Works and successors: Miscellaneous Plans and Drawings
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