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Plan of Southwark, Surrey, showing streets and named buildings: the manor place...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/64
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This record is about the Plan of Southwark, Surrey, showing streets and named buildings: the manor place... dating from [? 1541] 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 1/64
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1541]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Plan of Southwark, Surrey, showing streets and named buildings: the manor place and liberty, churches, cross, bull ring, market place, court house, the King's Bench, Marshalsea prison, pillory, inns with signboards, gates including chain gates, wells, hospital [St Thomas's], the king's liberty, park, dykes. Buildings represented by symbols. Text not written in a uniform direction. No scale shown. [Oriented to the east.] Endorsed in later hand: 'No 74 Southwarick'. May have been produced to show extent of the king's liberty and that of the liberty of the manor place, or to show areas of sanctuary as required by Act of 1541.
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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 31/74
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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)
- 60 cm x 83 cm
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Pen and ink, colour added. Hand and star watermark. Comprising four sheets; upper and lower sheets glued, left and right sides joined by a paper strip. Damage at edges.
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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)
- Published in : Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860' (London, 1967), entry 254; 'Survey of London: Bankside, vol xxii", plate 8; F G Parsons, 'The History of St Thomas's Hospital, vol 1', pp 88-9; P Harvey, 'Maps In Tudor England', (London, British Library and Public Record Office, 1993) pp 68-69; P Barber, 'Liberties and Immunities', in 'Tales from the Map Room,' P Barber and C Board, (BBC Books, 1993), pp. 132-133. All available in the reading rooms at TNA.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982607/
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