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'Map of Ashantee [i.e. Ashanti] and Gold Coast': two copies of a map, each on two...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/636
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This record is about the 'Map of Ashantee [i.e. Ashanti] and Gold Coast': two copies of a map, each on two... dating from 1873 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 78/636
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1873
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Map of Ashantee [i.e. Ashanti] and Gold Coast': two copies of a map, each on two joined sheets, covering the area (now in Ghana) between Nsuta (north-west of Kumasi), the mouth of the Volta River and Cape Three Points, showing rivers, mountains, regions, and named settlements. Item (2) is damaged at the lower right-hand corner. Scale: 1 inch to about 4.65 miles. Compass roses. Lithographed at the Topographical Depot, War Office, under the direction of Major C W Wilson, Royal Engineers. Coloured MS additions to item (2) show areas surveyed and mapped by Captain G L Huyshe and Captain R H Buller, Deputy Assistant Quartermasters General, and their assistants, 20 October 1873. A pencilled note on item (1) states that the scale is approximately 1 inch to 5 miles.
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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 25
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 116 cm x 89 cm
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Lithographed
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 903
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3269572/
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