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Ostend (now in Belgium). (1) '[Plan of Oste]nd': shows fortifications, batteries,...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/520
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This record is about the Ostend (now in Belgium). (1) '[Plan of Oste]nd': shows fortifications, batteries,... dating from 1814 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPH 1/520
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1814
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Ostend (now in Belgium). (1) '[Plan of Oste]nd': shows fortifications, batteries, military buildings, gates, waterways. Scale: [1:5,000]. Reference table (in French) in a separate column edging the left border. Compass indicator. Drawn by David Robinson, [RMSD]. Transmitted by [James] Carmichael Smyth, Lt Col RE, Aug 1814. Most of the title and part of the reference table have perished. (2), (3) 'Sections thro' the different fronts of Ostend': four sections on one sheet and six sections on another. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. Drawn by David Robinson and transmitted by Carmichael Smyth, July 1814. All three sheets are endorsed: '(Original)... 1814'. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 72 cm x 93 cm; (2) 64 cm x 95 cm; (3) 60 cm x 95 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- WO 78/1723
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- Public Record(s)
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- English and French
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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 663.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4562327/
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