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Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (partly in Lincolnshire): area between Peterborough,...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/45
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This record is about the Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (partly in Lincolnshire): area between Peterborough,... dating from [? late 14th century] 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPC 1/45
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? late 14th century]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (partly in Lincolnshire): area between Peterborough, Upwell, Wisbech and Crowland, showing watercourses, towns, settlements; cross at Wisbech; human figure, disproportionately large, apparently a corpse; boat. 'New cote', 'Knarr' and Wisbech surrounded by trees. Line of settlements through Holbeach and Gedney shown on right edge of map not in their true position. Abbey churches at Crowland, Peterborough and Thorney; houses, Crowland bridge, boat, in perspective; houses and church at Wisbech in different hand. About 1.5 inches to 1 mile: see Owen, p 92. [Oriented to the west.] North and south shown. Endorsed: 'No 45 Sutton' in later hand. The map does not show Morton's Leam, cut about 1480 (Owen, p 94; Lynam, p 306). Owen dates the map to the late fourteenth century on the basis of the handwriting.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a later map of the same area, but extended westward, see MPC 1/54
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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 31/45
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- 61 cm x 79.5 cm
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Manuscript, coloured, on parchment. Damage at western edge; small holes; worn and faded. Some parts of map, including Crowland Abbey, visible only under ultra-violet light
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- 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 2498. Chapter 5 by A E B Owen in Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England, eds R A Skelton and P D A Harvey, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986); Owen, 'A Fenland Frontier; the Establishment of the Boundary between Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire', Landscape History, vol iv, (1982), pp 41-46; map number 43a in E Lynam's 'Maps of the Fenland', Victoria County History, Huntingdonshire vol III (1936); number 8 in P. Harvey's list of pre-1500 maps, in 'Local and Regional Cartography in Medieval Europe', in The History of Cartography, vol 1, eds J B Harley and D Woodward, (Chicago, 1987).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982588/
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