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Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. 'An exact Draught [being an actual survey] of the Sea...
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/218
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This record is about the Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. 'An exact Draught [being an actual survey] of the Sea... dating from [?1721] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPHH 1/218
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Date (When the record was created)
- [?1721]
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Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. 'An exact Draught [being an actual survey] of the Sea Coast from Arundel in Sussex to St. Albans [in Dorset] ...': map showing harbours, havens and navigational information (soundings, shoals, buoyage, sailing directions, etcetera). Title and reference tables in ornate cartouches. Approximate scale: 1 inch to 1½ sea miles [1:109440]. Compass indicators. Surveyed by Jos. [?Joseph] Avery. Engraved by Emanuel Bowen and sold by R Mount & Company, Tower Hill, London, 1721.
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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 78/1701
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 63 cm x 120.9 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 19
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561322/
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