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Yorkshire: Pontefract. Plan of the old and new park enclosures, 'taken from a plan...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/171
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This record is about the Yorkshire: Pontefract. Plan of the old and new park enclosures, 'taken from a plan... dating from 1842 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 1/171
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1842
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Description (What the record is about)
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Yorkshire: Pontefract. Plan of the old and new park enclosures, 'taken from a plan drawn by Richard Smith about the year 1764-5 and found amongst the papers of Viscount Galway'. Shows field boundaries and name, acreage, names of proprietors. Reference tables. No scale shown. 'Copied from a plan lent by Mr. W. H. N. Myers, March 1842' by G W P[owell].
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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 31/209
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 51.8 cm x 73.7 cm
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- 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 3565
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982714/
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MPC 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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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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