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Lancashire: map of area between Great and Little Marton, Layton and Lytham [St Anne's]....
Catalogue reference: MR 1/1
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This record is about the Lancashire: map of area between Great and Little Marton, Layton and Lytham [St Anne's].... dating from [?1531] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MR 1/1
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1531]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Lancashire: map of area between Great and Little Marton, Layton and Lytham [St Anne's]. Shows common fields, Marton Mere, streams, paths, ponds, Hawes Common. Buildings drawn in perspective: houses, Lytham parish church, mill and sluice, bridges, Layton windmill, pillory. Possibly unfinished: some place name scrolls left empty; deletions include drawing of buildings at Priory of Lytham St Anne's. Scale: about six inches to 1 mile: based on Yates's calculation. Oriented to the east. Endorsed: 'No 56 Great Marton, Little Marton, Lytham Com' Lanc r: And by an Indorsm t. appeared to be a Boundary between the Prior de Lethum and Marg t Butler Wid w for a Comon called Hawes and to be taken in a Cause in the Duchy'. To illustrate a dispute, Lytham Priory v Thomas Butler, 23 and 24 Henry VIII.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- [Grid references: OSGB36: SD 356 272; WGS84: 53.73698, -2.97643]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For commission and depositions in the same case, see (L1 and L2) in DL 3/22
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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)
- DL 31/56
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- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 90 cm x 100 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 3292; E M Yates, 'Blackpool, A.D. 1533', Geographical Journal, vol CXXVII, (1961), pp 83-85.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559028/
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