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'Plan of the Fortress and Peninsula of Gibraltar including The Spanish Lines': map...

Catalogue reference: WO 78/2439

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This record is about the 'Plan of the Fortress and Peninsula of Gibraltar including The Spanish Lines': map... dating from 1865-1886 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
WO 78/2439
Date
1865-1886
Description

'Plan of the Fortress and Peninsula of Gibraltar including The Spanish Lines': map on four sheets, showing property belonging to the War Department, the Naval Department and the Sanitary Commissioners, and Crown leasehold and freehold lands. Reference table. Compass indicator. Surveyed by Lieutenant Charles Warren, Royal Engineers, and Major General [E O] Frome, Royal Engineers, 1865; zincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1869. A printed note on item (2) states that the Glacis, North Front and Catalan Bay have been corrected to 31 May 1886; note (signed): Major C Rochfort-Boyd.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
F 452
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Dimensions
95 cm x 64 cm
Map scale
1:2500
Physical condition
Zincographed, coloured
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 2013
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3271383/

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