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6 items (originally accompanying a report to the Board of Ordnance) extracted from...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/815
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This record is about the 6 items (originally accompanying a report to the Board of Ordnance) extracted from... dating from 1806 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1806
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6 items (originally accompanying a report to the Board of Ordnance) extracted from WO 55/2298. Kent: Chatham. 6 plans of Ordnance land and buildings. (1) 'Plan of the workshop and buildings in Prince Edward's bastion used by the artificers ...'. (2) 'Plan of temporary sawpits and workshops on the right of Chatham lines for carrying on works ..'. (3) 'Plan of temporary stables etc belonging to the Ordnance ...'. (4) Plans of miscellaneous buildings. (5) 'Plan of the gunwharf and the buildings there used for public purposes ...'. (6) 'Plan shewing the boundary of the Ordnance lands at Chatham, Fort Pitt and Upnor ...': also showing relief, rivers, vegetation, soil-types, roads, bridges, forts, other named buildings, and place names. Reference notes. Scale: (1-3, 5) 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]; (4) 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120], 1 inch to 40 feet [1:480], 1 inch to 50 feet; (6) 1 inch to 200 feet [1:2,400]. Compass indicator to item (6). All items [by] Captain John Nandfield, Commanding Royal Engineer, 30 August 1806. Dimensions: (1) 33 cm x 64 cm; (2) 64 cm x 32 cm; (3-5) each 68 cm x 102 cm; (6) 169 cm x 152 cm.
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from records of various departments
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