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1 item (enclosure to Sir Henry Seymour's despatch of 16 May 1837) extracted from...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/25
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- MPK 1/25
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Sir Henry Seymour's despatch of 16 May 1837) extracted from FO 10/49. Belgium, France: Ghent-Lille railway. 'Carte Generale de la Route en Fer projetée entre Gand et Lille avec Embranchement sur Tournay. 1837'. Title in rectangle at upper right corner. Scale: 11.5 cm to 10 km. There is no compass indicator, but Lille appears on this map to be placed west by south of Ghent rather than south-west. Drawn by Messrs Simons and de Ridder, engineers. Lithographed by V Labargé.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 58 cm x 96 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:86956
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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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 492.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3980046/
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