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1 item (enclosure in Major C F Close's letter of 31 May 1906) extracted from CO 520/40....
Catalogue reference: MF 1/23
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure in Major C F Close's letter of 31 May 1906) extracted from CO 520/40.... dating from 1906 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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- MF 1/23
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1906
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure in Major C F Close's letter of 31 May 1906) extracted from CO 520/40. TSGS 2084, 'Lagos and Southern Nigeria', overprinted in red to become TSGS 2183, 'Index to the 1/250,000 survey of Lagos and Southern Nigeria'; sheetlines and sheet numbers of the 1:250,000 survey [TSGS 1764] also overprinted in red.
TSGS 2084 was compiled from sheets 61, 73 and 74 of the map of Africa at 1:1,000,000 [IDWO/TSGS 1539], and shows terrain, waterways, roads, railways, telegraphs, boundaries, place names etc. Key to conventional signs. A note states, 'No portion of the country included in this sheet has been accurately surveyed and the positions of villages, rivers and hills are only approximate.' Compiled in the Topographical Section, General Staff, 1905. Overprinted 1906. Annotated in red ink: 'Rough proof 2183'. -
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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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Map designation (Identifying numbers or names given to printed maps by their publishers)
- TSGS 2183
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 65 cm x 94 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:1000000
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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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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments
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Public Record Office: maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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1 item (enclosure in Major C F Close's letter of 31 May 1906) extracted from CO 520/40....
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