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India. 'Oudh and Adjacent Districts compiled from Materials now in the Office of...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/559
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This record is about the India. 'Oudh and Adjacent Districts compiled from Materials now in the Office of... dating from 1848-1858 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 78/559
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848-1858
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Description (What the record is about)
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India. 'Oudh and Adjacent Districts compiled from Materials now in the Office of the Surveyor General of India, and corrected, where practicable, from the G.T. Survey Operations January 1848': map of the area (now in Uttar Pradesh state) between the boundary with Nepal in the north-east, Benares (now Varanasi) in the south-east, and Farrukhabad in the west, showing named settlements, waterways, and a proposed railway line. Reference table to survey posts, post offices and horse dak chokeys [i.e. customs stations on horse-transport routes]; notes on observations and sources. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles. (Signed): Captain Henry Ravenshaw Thullier, Bombay Engineers, Deputy Surveyor General; and Lieutenant Andrew Scott Waugh, Bombay Engineers, Surveyor General of India; this copy zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, April 1858.
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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)
- D 5
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Zincographed, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans
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