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2 items (originally enclosed in Consul Michell's [despatch] number 18, 31 December...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/465
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This record is about the 2 items (originally enclosed in Consul Michell's [despatch] number 18, 31 December... dating from 1886 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/465
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1886
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2 items (originally enclosed in Consul Michell's [despatch] number 18, 31 December 1886) extracted from FO 73/510. Northern Europe. 2 Scandinavian railway maps. (1) Map of northern Sweden and Norway between 69°N and 65°30'N, showing a railway line under construction between the Ofotfjord and Lulea; also showing rivers, towns, and the Norwegian-Swedish boundary. Scale: 1:1,000,000. Traced from a map supplied by the Norwegian Railway Department. (2) 'Map of parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Showing Railways Completed and Projected. By Walter Risley Hearn British Vice Consul Christiania [now Oslo], November 1886'. Reference table. Scale: 1:2,520,000. Dimensions: (1) 46 cm x 63 cm; (2) 56 cm x 60 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 4412 (item 1) and 213 (item 2).
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