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1 item (enclosure to Sir T Morton's letter from Durham of 7 February 1638/9 to Sir...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/261
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Sir T Morton's letter from Durham of 7 February 1638/9 to Sir... dating from 1639 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 1/261
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1639
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Sir T Morton's letter from Durham of 7 February 1638/9 to Sir F Windebank) extracted from SP 16/412 (item 571). 'Plott of Hartlepoole': map showing fortifications at Hartlepool, County Durham, with the coast from the River Tees to Hartlepool roughly sketched. Also shows churches, windmill, houses, and rocks. Scale: 1 inch to 176 feet (town only; the coastline, if it is drawn to any scale at all, is to a much smaller one).
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 77 cm x 67.3 cm
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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 3191
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982205/
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