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The Fens: 'A Mapp of ye Great Levell of ye Fenns extending into ye Countyes of Northampton,...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/88
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This record is about the The Fens: 'A Mapp of ye Great Levell of ye Fenns extending into ye Countyes of Northampton,... dating from [?1658] 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 1/88
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1658]
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Fens: 'A Mapp of ye Great Levell of ye Fenns extending into ye Countyes of Northampton, Norfolk, Suffolke, Lyncolne, Cambridge & Huntington & the Isle of Ely as it is now drained, described by. Jonas Moore Surveyr genll'. Shows fens, waterways, dykes, woods, commons, roads, parks (including 'Coll Cromwell's parck' near Ramsey Mere), landowners' names, mills, churches etc; acreage; lots identified by number (no key). Scale: 2 inches to 1 mile; scale runs along borders. Cardinal points in borders. Title in cartouche representing a wall. Arms [?of Fifth Earl of Bedford's Company for Draining the Fens] above title. Arms of gentry, parliamentarians and military officers. Sixteen roughly cut sheets, each mounted on page 60 cm x 49 cm, bound in volume. [John] 'Goddard Sculp'.
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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 31/100
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:36680
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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 2504. For a discussion of the dating, see Frances Willmoth, Sir Jonas Moore: Practical Mathematics and Restoration Science (Woodbridge, 1993), pp 114-119.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982631/
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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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Within the department: MPC
Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Duchy of Lancaster
335 records
Within the series: MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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