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1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch from Arthur Young, Colonial Secretary,...
Catalogue reference: MRQ 1/9
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch from Arthur Young, Colonial Secretary,... dating from 1911 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MRQ 1/9
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (originally enclosed in a despatch from Arthur Young, Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, to Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 7 February 1912) extracted from CO 273/384. South-East Asia. 'Map of the Malay Peninsula showing Railway Extensions': showing the proposed route through Kelantan and the Duff Company concession; also showing states, towns, rivers, hills and surrounding seas. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles. Signed: P [?]Anthony, 9 October 1911. Subsequently placed in Colonial Office file number 6608: 'Duff Concessions in Kelantan, Railway Route', 2 March 1912. The area covered by this map is now in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MR 1/1787/1
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 172 cm x 69.5 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:506880
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3979392/
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