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Military Ground near Leicester Square, showing houses in elevation. Scale: about...
Catalogue reference: MPE 1/1083
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- 1661
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Military Ground near Leicester Square, showing houses in elevation. Scale: about 1 inch to 26 yards. Cardinal points. By Will Harb[ord], 31 January 1660/61. With a description of the fields and armoury on the same sheet, and preceded by a nineteenth-century note on a separate sheet giving the historical background to the plan.
[Wrongly identified as Middlesex: Spitalfields (now in London Borough of Tower Hamlets). Plan of the Artillery Ground to the north of Leicester House in a 19th century note]
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- LRRO 1/1830
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- English
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- 29.2 cm x 37.6 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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