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Six sheets of engraved maps of part of the county of Derbyshire. Scale: rather more...
Catalogue reference: MPC 1/182
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This record is about the Six sheets of engraved maps of part of the county of Derbyshire. Scale: rather more... dating from 1791 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 1/182
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1791
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Description (What the record is about)
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Six sheets of engraved maps of part of the county of Derbyshire. Scale: rather more than 1 inch to 1 mile. (1) Includes a craggy landscape and the title of the county on a rock face; (2) has an inset plan of the town of Derby, scale about 1 inch to 165 yards; (6) contains, in a rococo cartouche, a dedication to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, etc, of this survey, begun in 1762 and finished in 1767, by P P Burdett. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to His Majesty. Published 1 October 1791, with improvements by George Snowden, proprietor of the plates. (2) is signed by Snowden. Dimensions of sheets: between 54.9 cm x 38.1 cm and 54.6 cm x 75.4 cm.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The sheets are filed in the order: 3, 2, 4, 1, 5 and 6.
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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 31/225
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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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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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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 2521
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982725/
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