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1 item extracted from SP 1/228 (item 212). Plan of fortifications at Berwick-upon-Tweed,...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/137
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from SP 1/228 (item 212). Plan of fortifications at Berwick-upon-Tweed,... dating from [c1545] 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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- MPF 1/137
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c1545]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from SP 1/228 (item 212). Plan of fortifications at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, showing citadel and part of bridge over River Tweed. No textual information: perhaps unfinished. No scale shown; apparently drawn to scale. [Oriented to north-east]. Does not appear to relate to the accounts among which it was found.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 53 cm x 77.5 cm
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- 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: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 3346; H Colvin, History of the King's Works, vol 4 part 2, (London, HMSO, 1982) p 643, note 1; number 47 in list of maps and drawings, Calendar of Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol XXI, Part II, 1546-7, Appendix, pp 454-475.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982081/
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