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Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (and partly in Lincolnshire): showing area between...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/54
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This record is about the Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (and partly in Lincolnshire): showing area between... dating from [? 15th 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 1/54
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 15th century]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Map of Bedford Level, Cambridgeshire (and partly in Lincolnshire): showing area between Peterborough, Coldham, Wisbech and Crowland, and north of Crowland to 'The hall': watercourses, towns, settlements; abbeys at Crowland, Peterborough and Thorney: cross at Wisbech; bloody sword and wounded human figure shown disproportionately large. Line of settlements through Holbeach and Gedney at right of map not in their true position. Buildings, bridges and boats in perspective. About 1.5 inches to 1 mile: see Owen p 92. [Oriented to the west.] North and south shown. 'Lutton' added in later hand. Endorsed in later hand: 'Holland Fenn', 'No 54 Holland Fenn'. Apparently based on MPC 1/45, though appears to be later in date, and is extended to the west, with minor alterations to layout of watercourses, and the addition of a number of features: additional place-names, including 'Holland Fen'; 'mille acras' marks a field; bridges; another boat, at Peterborough. Settlements generally shown as more substantial, amid woodland; roofs of houses coloured red.
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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 31/54
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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)
- 69 cm x 90 cm
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- Parchment. Manuscript, coloured; legends barely legible
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 2499; 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) p 96; 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', which he dates at 1550 (Victoria County History, Huntingdonshire vol III, 1936).
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982597/
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