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1 item (originally enclosed in Consul J A Longworth's despatch of 17 July 1862 to...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/420
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in Consul J A Longworth's despatch of 17 July 1862 to... dating from 1862 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 1/420
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (originally enclosed in Consul J A Longworth's despatch of 17 July 1862 to Sir Henry Bulwer) extracted from FO 195/724. Serbia (now part of Yugoslavia). 'Croquis de Belgrade... 1862': sketch plan showing the sites of foreign consulates. Reference table. Compass indicator. According to Longworth, this plan was traced from a map in the archives of the French consulate, [Belgrade]: he described it as 'imperfect and incorrect'.
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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)
- French
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 60 cm x 86.5 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:5000
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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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 4951.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983441/
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MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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