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Lancashire: Penwortham, Howick and Hutton. 4 items. (1) Former cover sheet. (2) and...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/63
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This record is about the Lancashire: Penwortham, Howick and Hutton. 4 items. (1) Former cover sheet. (2) and... dating from [1570] 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 1/63
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1570]
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Lancashire: Penwortham, Howick and Hutton. 4 items. (1) Former cover sheet. (2) and (3) Commission dated 8 May 1571, requiring map to be made to show ancient meres and bounds of the manors, and commissioners' return. (4) Diagrammatic map of the manors of Penwortham, Howick and Hutton (south-west of Preston), showing the White Moss between the manors. Shows the River Ribble from Penwortham to Hutton and the areas to the south as far as Bretherton and Leyland. Neighbouring places indicated: Much Hoole and Little Hoole, Ulnes Walton, Walton le Dale, Farrington. Also shows highway around White Moss, bridges, ditches; fields, open and enclosed; church and post mill at Penwortham, and houses in simple elevation; 'hell holes' in marsh between Penwortham and Hutton. Place names set in labels. No scale shown. Cardinal points: oriented to the west (although text-labels are set at different angles). Endorsed on label in late seventeenth century hand: 'Penwortham, Hooton, Howick. The Comicion is with the bundle of Comicions'. Dimensions: 79 cm x 58 cm. Produced in dispute John Fletewode v Henry Farington.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- [Grid references: OSGB36: SD 523 290; WGS84: 53.75496, -2.72353]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- DL 31/71
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- Not Public Record(s)
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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 3214
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982606/
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