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South Africa: Cape Province: Cape Town. 'Table Bay Defences. Record Plan of W.D....
Catalogue reference: WO 78/3343
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This record is about the South Africa: Cape Province: Cape Town. 'Table Bay Defences. Record Plan of W.D.... dating from 1889-1894 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 78/3343
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1889-1894
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South Africa: Cape Province: Cape Town. 'Table Bay Defences. Record Plan of W.D. [War Department] land at Craig's Battery'. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet. Compass indicator. Copied by C H Smith, Compnay Sergeant Major, Royal Engineers. Signed by Colonel G Philips, Commanding Royal Engineer, South Africa, to accompany his letter of 26 November 1889 to the Inspector General of Fortifications. Manuscript additions include a note stating that the area shown was one of the original freehold grants made in 1840.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- F 406
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- Public Record(s)
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- 69 cm x 102 cm
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 2667
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3272287/
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