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Enclosure award and map of Parkhurst Forest, Hampshire (Isle of Wight). Authenticated...

Catalogue reference: MPE 1/181

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This record is about the Enclosure award and map of Parkhurst Forest, Hampshire (Isle of Wight). Authenticated... dating from [1815] 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
MPE 1/181
Date
[1815]
Description

Enclosure award and map of Parkhurst Forest, Hampshire (Isle of Wight). Authenticated duplicate of enclosure award, dated 13 June 1815, pursuant to Act 52 Geo III, c clxxi. Map covers the enclosed area only (2500 acres) and shows the land after enclosure. Also shows woods, post-enclosure field acreages, gates, footpaths or bridleways, signal station (with pennant), barracks, burial ground, orphan asylum, rights of way, dated and named boundary stones, parish boundary, some named landowners. Includes compass decorated with oak leaves and a north point decorated with an acorn. Scale: 1 inch to 10 chains. Surveyed by Richard Nightingale of Lyndhurst, and James Clark of Newport (Isle of Wight), 1815. Award and map comprise 26 membranes; map is on penultimate membrane

Note
[Grid references: OSGB36: SZ 475 905; WGS84: 50.71162, -1.32716]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
LRRO 1/78
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Dimensions
59 cm x 69 cm
Map scale
1:7920
Physical condition
Manuscript, coloured, on parchment
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Archives and libraries
Mental illness
Maps and plans
Children
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 1719. Roger J P Kain, John Chapman and Richard R Oliver, The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales, 1595-1918: a cartographic analysis and electronic catalogue. Entry: 12424
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4048429/

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