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Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Ogmore with Ogmore Castle, Dunraven...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/49
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This record is about the Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Ogmore with Ogmore Castle, Dunraven... dating from [1579 June] 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 1/49
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1579 June]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Ogmore with Ogmore Castle, Dunraven Castle, Southerdown, Wick and other hamlets, showing roads, rivers, commons, enclosures, the king's wood. Number of householders given for each settlement; acreage given for named areas of common land. Houses, the Kings Mill at Ogmore, St Brides church in perspective; bridges in crude perspective. Dunraven and Ogmore Castle in elevation. No scale shown. Oriented to the south. Cardinal points in margin. Endorsed: 'No. 49 Ogmore. By an Indorsement appears to have been taken by a Special Commission in a Cause in the Duchy'; label attached to canvas, in later hand. Signed by William Jenkin, Richard Gwynne. Map ordered to be made by warrant of 26 May, 21 Elizabeth, and enclosed with commissioners' certificate dated 27 June 1579 (both in DL 4/21/2), in which the commissioners claimed to have made the map. A second (later sixteenth century?) hand notes acreage of land areas and numbers of householders; it explains that the map shows areas of common used by householders of St Brides and Southerdown, in which the householders of Wick claimed common rights.
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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 31/49
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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)
- 88 cm x 79 cm
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Paper, backed with canvas. Pen and ink, colour added
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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 4148; R Mitchell and A Janes, Maps: their untold stories, (Bloomsbury, 2014), discussed p22 with colour plate of similar map at MR 1/6
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982592/
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MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Duchy of Lancaster
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Ogmore with Ogmore Castle, Dunraven...
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