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Ireland, Scotland and England. 3 copies of a book of 16 plans illustrating Thomas...
Catalogue reference: MPD 1/36
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This record is about the Ireland, Scotland and England. 3 copies of a book of 16 plans illustrating Thomas... dating from 1809 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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- MPD 1/36
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1809
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Description (What the record is about)
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Ireland, Scotland and England. 3 copies of a book of 16 plans illustrating Thomas Telford's Report on communications between Ireland and England via south-west Scotland. (1) Irish Channel communications; (2) Portpatrick, Wigtownshire; (3) and (4) Portnessock Bay and harbour, Wigtownshire; (5) and (6) Bangor Bay and proposed harbour, County Down; (7) Donaghadee, County Down; (8) and (9) Toll road and Cree River bridge, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, John Gillone, county surveyor, 26 June 1807, (10) and (11) Dee River, Dee Bridge village and bridge, Kirkcudbrightshire; (12) Dee bridge at Kirkcudbright; (13) Esk bridge at Garristown, Cumberland; (14) Sark bridge between Dumfries and Cumberland, (15) and (16) Eden River and bridge at Carlisle, Cumberland Various scales and sizes. Compass indicators. (1) to (7) by Thomas Telford and John McKerlie, civil engineers, March 1808. Engraved by James Basire and printed by Luke Hansard by order of the House of Commons, 15 June 1809.
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The full Report, of which these maps form only a small part, is not available at the PRO, but can be consulted at the House of Lords Record Office.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- T 62/37
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- Public Record(s)
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 volume(s)
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- 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 3734
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982355/
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