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Yorkshire: Rothwell. Plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/30
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This record is about the Yorkshire: Rothwell. Plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes... dating from [1533] 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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- MPC 1/30
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1533]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Yorkshire: Rothwell. Plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and woods with their acreage; fences and gates; River Aire; park bounded by Wrigglesworth, Oulton, Rothwell, Carleton, Lofthouse, Leeds (indicated by legend). 'The hey lodge' [the High Lodge]. No scale shown. Oriented to the south. Cardinal points shown. Endorsed in later hand: 'No 30 Rothwell'. To show lands for herbage in dispute between Thomas, Lord Darcy and the tenants of Rothwell. Lines crossing some boundaries may be marks of measurement or other marks made during the map's construction. For what appears to be a fair copy of this map in the same hand, see MPI 1/249. For Lord Darcy's own copy of this map, see SP 1/237 (part 2, f 148). For depositions in this case, dated 27 April, 25 Henry VIII, see DL 3/25 (D1).
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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)
- DL 31/30
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- 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)
- 40 cm x 58 cm
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- Pen and ink
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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 3572. R W Hoyle, 'Thomas Lord Darcy and the Rothwell Tenants, c. 1526-1534', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 63, 1991, pp 85-107; this map is discussed at pp 92, 105-106.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982573/
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MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: MPC
Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Duchy of Lancaster
335 records
Within the series: MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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