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Hampshire: Portsea Island. Seven sheets of plans and drawings of defences for the...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/925
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This record is about the Hampshire: Portsea Island. Seven sheets of plans and drawings of defences for the... dating from 1756 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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- MR 1/925
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1756
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Description (What the record is about)
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Hampshire: Portsea Island. Seven sheets of plans and drawings of defences for the docks. (1) 'Plan of Portsea Lake, shewing the Situation of the Batteries and Line executed for the Defence of that Pass': also shows parts of Portsmouth and Langstone Harbours. (2) Sheet of sections and profiles related to item (3). (3) 'Design for Fortifying Portsmouth Dock': plan. (4) Sheet of elevations and sections related to item (3). (5) 'Design for a Casemated Redout [sic]': elevation, section and two plans of a redoubt. (6) Damaged copy of part of item (3). (7) 'Design for a Fort at Portsea Bridge near Portsmouth': plan. Scale: (1) 1 inch to 400 feet [1:4,800]; (2) [sections], (4) 1 inch to 25 feet [1:300]; (3, 6-7) 1 inch to 200 feet [1:2,400]; (5) 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]. Compass indicator to item (1). Item (1) Surveyed by William Dundas and drawn by Daniel Slack, 1756. Item (2) by Will [?William] Roy, Engineer.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Item (2) follows item (7)
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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)
- WO 78/1637
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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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 1546
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559952/
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