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1 item, numbered 6, (formerly enclosed in a letter from the Colonial Office to the...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/2010
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This record is about the 1 item, numbered 6, (formerly enclosed in a letter from the Colonial Office to the... dating from 1841 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 1/2010
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1841
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item, numbered 6, (formerly enclosed in a letter from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office, 10 September 1841) extracted from FO 97/387. Spain: Andalusia, Cádiz. 'Plan of Forts St. Philip St Barbara and the Lines previous to their being destroyed on the 14th Feby. 1810'. Reference notes on the conditions of the forts. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Drawn for Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander Woodford, [Governor of Gibraltar]. Signed: Colonel C F Smith, Commanding Royal Engineers, 26 August 1841. For the Colonial Office letter of 10 September 1841, see FO 97/380; for Governor Woodford's despatch of 26 August 1841, see CO 91/154
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For items numbered 1-5 and 7-11, see respectively MFQ 1/375
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- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- 27.5 cm x 156 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:1200
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- MS, coloured
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 4199
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