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English Channel. 'A new Hydrographical Survey of the British Channel... as far as...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/948
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This record is about the English Channel. 'A new Hydrographical Survey of the British Channel... as far as... dating from 1782 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 1/948
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1782
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Description (What the record is about)
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English Channel. 'A new Hydrographical Survey of the British Channel... as far as Cape Clear [Cléire, County Cork, Ireland]: improved from the Large Chart of the late Thomas Jeffery's Geographer to the King': chart of areas as far north as Cardigan (Aberteifi) in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), Wales; as far east as Ostend (Oostende, now in Belgium); and as far south-west as Ushant Island (Île d'Ouessant), France; showing shoals, the nature of the sea bed, rhumb-lines and soundings. Reference notes on tides. Decorative cartouche; views of parts of the coast. Scale: 1 inch to about 10 nautical miles. Compass stars. Printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennet, Fleet Street, 1 May 1782. Insets: maps and charts of: Baltimore Harbour in County Cork; Falmouth, Fowey, Mevagissey Bay and Mount's Bay, in Cornwall; Plymouth in Devon, the Isle of Portland in Dorset; the Isle of Wight with the Solent and the Hampshire coast; and the Kent coast between Margate and Saint Margaret's Bay. A sheet of paper seeming to be a scrap of cover sheet is also filed on this roll.
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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 78/1789
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 74 cm x 156.5 cm
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- Engraved
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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 42
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559975/
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