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(1) 'An Exact Survey of the Lands takeing [ sic ] in for erecting a Battery at Folkestone...

Catalogue reference: MPH 1/937/1-2

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This record is about the (1) 'An Exact Survey of the Lands takeing [ sic ] in for erecting a Battery at Folkestone... dating from 1847 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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Reference
MPH 1/937/1-2
Date
1847
Description

(1) 'An Exact Survey of the Lands takeing [sic] in for erecting a Battery at Folkestone in Kent'. Scale: 1 inch to 80 feet [1:960]. Compass indicator. Drawn at the Royal Engineers Office, Hythe, 18 May 1847. Certified by Alexander Gordon, Captain, Royal Engineers, to be a true copy. (2) 'Plan of Folkestone Battery'. Shows the Ordnance boundary, encroachments on Ordnance property, Coastguard property, and land to be sold. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 40 feet. Compass indicator. Signed by Alexander Gordon, Captain, Royal Engineers, 20 May 1847. Both plans initialled by W B Tylden, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Royal Engineer, to accompany his letter of 22 May 1847. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 21 cm x 43 cm; (2) 31 cm x 47 cm.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured; (2) on tracing paper
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9414333/

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