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Kingdom of the Netherlands: Huy (now in Belgium). Seven sheets of plans and drawings....
Catalogue reference: MR 1/929
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This record is about the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Huy (now in Belgium). Seven sheets of plans and drawings.... dating from [c.1816] 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 1/929
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c.1816]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Kingdom of the Netherlands: Huy (now in Belgium). Seven sheets of plans and drawings. (1) 'Plan of a piece of Ground on the left bank of the Meuse opposite to Huy, with a work marked in Pencil which might be constructed on it'. (2-6) Five sheets of sections, apparently relating to items (1) and (7), and possibly also to other plans not on this roll. (7) Plan of land on both banks of the River Meuse. Scale: (1) 1 inch to 412 feet [1:4,948]; (2-6) 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]; (7) 1 inch to 400 feet [1:4,800]. Sheet sizes between 38 cm x 49 cm and 48 cm x 152 cm.
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Item 5 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 78/1682
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- MS, coloured. Irregular
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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: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 623
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559956/
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MR 1
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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