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1 item extracted from SP 12/87 folio 240. 'The Plotte of Sheppey' (endorsement):...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/240
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from SP 12/87 folio 240. 'The Plotte of Sheppey' (endorsement):... dating from [1572] 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 1/240
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1572]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from SP 12/87folio 240. 'The Plotte of Sheppey' (endorsement): map of the Isle of Sheppey, off the north Kent coast, showing houses and churches, trees, water channels, marshes and hills, windmills and beacons, Queensborough castle and town, town of Minster. Ownership of houses and lands denoted, especially that of Lord Cheney; red crayon marks encircle some of these. Some lands coloured. Also shows the North Kent coast, River Medway and Isle of Grain sketched in, with Swaleness fort drawn on a paste-down, carefully feathered-in. Seven ships, and man in boat drawn to indicate ferry to mainland. Reference notes in fretwork cartouche to anchorages and passages for ships. Plain black border. Scale bar surmounted by dividers, with legend in Latin: three inches to one mile. Cardinal points in fretwork cartouches: oriented to the east. Surveyor's monogram: 'IM'. Extracted from volume containing two surveys of Lord Cheney's possessions on Sheppey, taken in 1572, connected with the sequestration of the property, on the grounds of its importance for the defence of the Isle of Sheppey. Nineteenth-century pencilled endorsement gives date as 7 October 1574.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- [Grid references: OSGB36: TQ 975 702; WGS84: 51.39591, 0.83937]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 83 cm x 59 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:21120
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 1291. P D A Harvey, Maps in Tudor England, (London, 1993), plate 22 and p 41
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982184/
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