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Cambridgeshire: Bedford Level. Plan of area of fen between Deeping Gate, Waldram...
Catalogue reference: MPI 1/251
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This record is about the Cambridgeshire: Bedford Level. Plan of area of fen between Deeping Gate, Waldram... dating from [1543] 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 1/251
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1543]
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Cambridgeshire: Bedford Level. Plan of area of fen between Deeping Gate, Waldram Hall, Glinton and Maxey. Shows towns of Maxey, Deeping Gate, Deeping St James, Northborough, Glinton, Peakirk. Also shows River Welland and tributary; roads; fields of Parsons Close, Peynes Holme, South Fryth and North Fryth. Maxey castle, churches, bridges, gates, crosses, drawn in elevation; houses drawn conventionally. No scale shown. Cardinal points: oriented to the east. Endorsed: 'Inter maxey & Glynton' in contemporary hand. Drawn to illustrate a dispute over common of pasture in North Fen between the king's tenants of Maxey and the inhabitants of Glinton. Drawn between 24 November, 34 Henry VIII, when commissioners were instructed to make a map, and 9 June, 35 Henry VIII, when depositions were taken which mention view of the map (see E 315/120/158-159). For other proceedings in the case see E 321/4/18 and E 315/117/59-66.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- SC 12/3/30
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 96 cm x 61 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 2835
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