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2 items (formerly filed with Ordnance Office correspondence relating to Colchester)...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/91
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This record is about the 2 items (formerly filed with Ordnance Office correspondence relating to Colchester)... dating from 1832-1835 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)
- MFQ 1/91
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1832-1835
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (formerly filed with Ordnance Office correspondence relating to Colchester) extracted from WO 44/62. Essex: Colchester. 2 sketched plans of an Ordnance barrack field. Reference notes. Scale: 1 inch to 200 feet. Item 1 signed: Lieutenant Colonel G Hoste, Commanding Royal Engineers, 16 March 1832; and Lieutenant J Walpole, Royal Engineers, Harwich, 16 March 1832. Item 2 initialled by R Y C, 14 January 1835; and signed by Hoste, 15 January 1835. Dimensions: (1) 28 cm x 43.5 cm; (2) 41.5 cm x 28 cm. Item 2 originally accompanying a letter from D O Blyth, 5 January 1835; the correspondence to which item 1 relates seems not to have been preserved at the parent reference.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:2400
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983112/
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MFQ 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: MFQ
Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments held...
6,070 records
Within the series: MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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2 items (formerly filed with Ordnance Office correspondence relating to Colchester)...
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