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Map of Holland Fen, Lincolnshire, showing the area between Donington, Crowland, Market...
Catalogue reference: MPCC 1/7
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This record is about the Map of Holland Fen, Lincolnshire, showing the area between Donington, Crowland, Market... dating from [c 1430] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPCC 1/7
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c 1430]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Map of Holland Fen, Lincolnshire, showing the area between Donington, Crowland, Market Deeping and Horbling. Shows monastic and parish churches, houses, crosses including St Guthlac's cross at Brotherhouse Bar; roads, bridges, rivers and dykes, causeway; marshland, Bourne well, cloot near Brotherhouse Bar; boundary between Parts of Kesteven and Holland. Note to effect that villages of Rippingdale, Dunsby, Morton and Bourne had common in marsh of Pinchbeck; Thurlby did not. Place-names in English: notes in Latin. Buildings apparently drawn from life, and outlined in red: churches, houses, bridges in perspective; Crowland bridge in plan. No scale shown. Oriented to the north. Endorsed: 'The plais For bestes Holand' in contemporary hand; 'Holland Fenn', 'Lincoln', 'No 55 Holland Fen' in later hands.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- [Grid references: OSGB36: TF 241 256; WGS84: 52.81331, -0.15848]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
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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)
- MPC 100; DL 31/55
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- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Latin
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 97 cmx83 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- The British Isles catalogue proposed a dating of 'Elizabeth I or earlier' (Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 2688); Edward Lynam suggested a date of 1550 (number 86 in list of 'Maps of the Fens', Victoria County History, Huntingdonshire vol III (1936)); Arthur Owen placed MPCC 1/7 in the sixteenth century (in Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England, R A Skelton and P D A Harvey, eds., (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986), chapter 25 on a map of Deeping Fen, p 291). However, palaeographic and stylistic evidence suggests a mid-fifteenth century or earlier date for this map. A detailed analysis is given in 'The Pinchbeck Fen Map: A Fifteenth-Century Map of the Lincolnshire Fenland', Rose Mitchell and David Crook, Imago Mundi, volume 51, pp 40-50.
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