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(1) The south-west corner of a sheet of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 County Series...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/783
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This record is about the (1) The south-west corner of a sheet of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 County Series... dating from 1855-1864 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 1/783
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1864
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(1) The south-west corner of a sheet of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 County Series map of Pembrokeshire (now in Dyfed), Wales, perhaps used as a wrapper for the plans of Aldershot, Hampshire, described below. Shows a loop of the Pembroke River. Engraved. Surveyed 1864. (2) 'Aldershot Plan showing the proposed arrangements for One Battalion of Infantry in "Wooden Huts"'. MS, coloured. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet. Reference table to buildings by type. Copied by J Nightingale. (3) Augmented version of (2), with additional inset 'Sketch showing the proposed disposition of Temporary Huts for 20 Battalions' alongside the Basingstoke Canal. MS, coloured. (Signed) F Smith, Major General, 11 February 1855. Copied by J Nightingale 23 February 1855. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 14 cm x 34 cm; (2) 37.6 cm x 47.8 cm; (3) 38.6 cm x 74.4 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- WO 78/4577
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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(1) The south-west corner of a sheet of the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 County Series...
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