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Geometrical perspective drawing of London and environs, showing the altitude of public...
Catalogue reference: MPE 1/761
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This record is about the Geometrical perspective drawing of London and environs, showing the altitude of public... dating from Sept 1828 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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- MPE 1/761
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Date (When the record was created)
- Sept 1828
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Geometrical perspective drawing of London and environs, showing the altitude of public buildings, from Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead (the highest) down to the River Thames. Scale: 1 inch to about 15 feet. Engraved by G Gladwin; aquatinted by R Havell, junior; the writing by W A Lind. With reference table. By Frederick Wood and William Moffat, surveyors.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- LRRO 1/865
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- Public Record(s)
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- 66 cm x 95.3 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 63
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4049009/
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