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Yorkshire: plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and woods...
Catalogue reference: MPI 1/249
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This record is about the Yorkshire: plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and woods... dating from [1533] 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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- MPI 1/249
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1533]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Yorkshire: plan showing Rothwell park and new park: named fields, closes and woods with their acreage; fences and gates: River Aire; 'the high lodge' (Rothwell Haigh); park bounded by Wrigglesworth, Oulton, Rothwell, Carleton, Lofthouse, and Leeds. No scale shown. Cardinal points: oriented to the south. Endorsed: '[illegible] of Rothwell Park'. The archival reference suggests this may be Lord Darcy's version of the map, seized among his muniments after his forfeiture for treason.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This is a fair copy with minor alterations apparently in the same hand, of MPC 1/30
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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)
- SC 12/4/22
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 41 cm x 59 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 3573. R W Hoyle, 'Thomas Lord Darcy and the Rothwell Tenants, c. 1526-1534', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol 63, 1991, pp 85-107; this map is discussed at pp 92, 105-106, and reproduced as Plate 1
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4047450/
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