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Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Wick and Ewenny parishes, showing...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/6
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- MR 1/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?Hen VIII]
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Wales: Glamorganshire. Map of St Brides Major, Wick and Ewenny parishes, showing Ogmore and Dunraven castles and Ewenny priory; roads, rivers, commons, the king's wood and another wood. Castles, priory and other buildings drawn in perspective. No scale shown. Oriented to the west. Cardinal points in margin. Endorsed: 'Ogmore, Proposed thus Certifyed upon the first Co[...] by all the Commissioners without [??] [??] certifying of any Plott. G Bromley.' Endorsement in late seventeenth century hand on label affixed to canvas on which map mounted. The depiction of Ewenny Priory apparently intact suggests that the map was made before the priory was dissolved in 1540.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- [Grid references: OSGB36: SS 886 768; WGS84: 51.47869, -3.60435]. WGS84 interpolated from OSGB36.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- DL 31/58
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- Not Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 81 cm x 116 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 4147.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559033/
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Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from records of various departments
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