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1 item extracted from E 134/39Eliz/East14. Map of the Isle of Axholme (now in Humberside),...
Catalogue reference: MPB 1/16
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from E 134/39Eliz/East14. Map of the Isle of Axholme (now in Humberside),... dating from [1596] 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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- MPB 1/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1596]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from E 134/39Eliz/East14. Map of the Isle of Axholme (now in Humberside), from Walkeringham to Owston and from Wroot to Kelfield. Shows the lordships of Haxey, Misterton, Stockwith, Gunthorpe and Owston. Also shows towns; the rivers Trent, Idle and Eau, tributaries and bridges; named fields and woods; windmills; and the boundary between Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Border. Scale bar surmounted by dividers: 1 inch to 2 furlongs (4 miles). Cardinal points: oriented to the north. Made by Christopher Saxton, to illustrate his depositions (membrane 9 of E 134/39Eliz/East14) in a dispute between the crown tenants in Haxey and Owston (Lincolnshire) and the crown tenants in Misterton (Nottinghamshire), over the county boundary.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 67 cm x 96 cm
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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 2632. Described in Sir G Fordham, ‘Some Surveys and Maps of the Elizabethan period’, Geographical Journal, vol lxxi, 1928, pp 51-52. Reproduced and described in G Dunston, ‘The Rivers of Axholme’, (London, [1909]) pp114-119. Described in I Evans and H Lawrence, ‘Christopher Saxton, Elizabethan map-maker’, (Wakefield Historical Publications, 1979), pp 99-100
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982845/
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