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Essex: Hainault Forest (now in the London Borough of Redbridge). 'A Plan of the Lands...
Catalogue reference: MPEE 1/21
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This record is about the Essex: Hainault Forest (now in the London Borough of Redbridge). 'A Plan of the Lands... dating from 1791 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPEE 1/21
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1791
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Description (What the record is about)
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Essex: Hainault Forest (now in the London Borough of Redbridge). 'A Plan of the Lands called the Kings Forest or Kings Woods, lying in that part of the Forest of Waltham called Hainault Forest and in the Parishes of Barking and Dagenham in the County of Essex'. Title surmounted by a crown over a swag. Reference table to place-names and acreage. Scale: 1 inch to 10 chains. Compass star. Surveyed by Joseph Pennington, by order of the Commissioners of Land Revenue. Drawn by Samuel Baker.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another version of this map drawn by Baker, and for a draft, see MR 1/301
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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)
- LRRO 1/749
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- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 71.6 cm x 117.3 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:7920
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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 984
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4048014/
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