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Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Thirteen maps of towns and villages showing...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/1021
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- WO 78/1021
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c.1799-1806]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. Thirteen maps of towns and villages showing military operations: (1) Gerrards Cross; (2) Penn; (3) Holmer Green; (4) covering the area between High Wycombe and Twyford (Berkshire) showing an army retreating southward across the River Thames; (5) South Weston; (6) Holtspur Heath, near Wooburn and Beaconsfield; (7) Park Hill, to the south of High Wycombe and West Wycombe, with a detailed reference table in French; (8) the environs of High Wycombe, Great Missenden and Great Marlow; (9) Wichmore Cross, Easthampstead; (10) Great Kingshill; (11) Prestwood Common; (12) Chesham Bois and its environs; (13) outline copy of item (11), lacking shading and many details. Scale: (1, 4-5, 8) 2 inches to 1 mile (1:31,680); (2) not shown; (3, 6-7, 10-13) 6 inches to 1 mile (1:10,560); (9) 5 inches to 1 mile (1:12,672). Compass indicator to items (1-11); south at the top of items (4) and (12); west at the top of item (10). [By] Lieutenant Daniel Frazer, Royal Staff Corps. Dimensions: (1) 48 cm x 60 cm; (2) 53/5 cm x 71.5 cm; (3) 87.5 cm x 59 cm; (4) 58.5 cm x 87.5 cm; (5) 58.5 cm x 80 cm; (6) 63 cm x 58.5 cm; (7) 58.5 cm x 87 cm; (8) 71.5 cm x 58.5 cm; (9) 69.5 cm x 77 cm; (10) 77.5 cm x 124.5 cm; (11) 75.5 cm x 128.5 cm; (12) 77 cm x 115.5 cm; (13) 77.5 cm x 126.5 cm. Originally produced to illustrate tactical lectures given by General Francis Jarry [at the Royal Military College, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire]. Presented to the Topographical Department of the War Office by Messrs Kelley, March 1873.
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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)
- England/District/24
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MR 185; WO 1078/1021; WO 38/51
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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 and French
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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- 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: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entries 817, 2443, 2461, 2464-2465, 2470, 2479, 2481-2485, 2933. Extract references originally printed as MR 185; documents subsequently reverted to WO 78/1021
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3269959/
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