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Lancashire and Cheshire: Liverpool. Six sheets of plans and sections of defences...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/1355
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This record is about the Lancashire and Cheshire: Liverpool. Six sheets of plans and sections of defences... dating from 1814 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 1/1355
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1814
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Lancashire and Cheshire: Liverpool. Six sheets of plans and sections of defences on both banks of the River Mersey: (1) a three-gun battery proposed to be built on the embankment in front of the docks; (2-4) a dock perch and five-gun battery proposed to be built on the western [Cheshire] bank; (5) the proposed north battery; (6) existing batteries. Scale: (1) 1 inch to about 13 feet; (2) 1 inch to about 90 yards (plan), 1 inch to about 45 yards (section); (3) 1 inch to about 45 yards (plan), 1 inch to about 22 yards (section); (4-5) 1 inch to about 15 feet; (6) 1 inch to about 17 feet, 1 inch to about 8 feet and 1 inch to about 160 feet. Dimensions: (1) 59 cm x 43.5 cm; (2) 48.5 cm x 62 cm; (3) 64 cm x 97 cm; (4) 85.5 cm x 59 cm; (5) 86 cm x 73.5 cm; (6) 74 cm x 129.5 cm. Each sheet signed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Pilkington, 18 March 1814.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- WO 78/709
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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