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2 items extracted from CO 118/1. (1) Map 'taken from a Chart of Heiligoland, made...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/970
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This record is about the 2 items extracted from CO 118/1. (1) Map 'taken from a Chart of Heiligoland, made... dating from 1787-1808 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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- MPG 1/970
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1787-1808
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2 items extracted from CO 118/1. (1) Map 'taken from a Chart of Heiligoland, made for the use of the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburgh in the Year 1787', showing Heligoland (now Helgoland in Germany) and Sandy Island, with a sketched view of them both. Soundings and anchorage points indicated. Reference table to buildings, fortifications, hills, beacons. No scale shown. Compass star. Signed by W O Hamilton, Lieutenant-[Governor], 20 October 1807, enclosed in his letter of the same date. MFQ 1/561/1 is probably the chart on which this map was based. (2) Plans and elevation of a lighthouse on Heligoland, with an elevation of the accompanying coal house, all on a single sheet. Scale: (plans) about 1:132; elevations about 1:92 (calculated). Reference table. The sheet is bound with papers of 1808,, though not on same subject. (1) 23 cm x 37 cm; (2) 38 cm x 30 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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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 1641, 1649
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