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Devon and Cornwall. Map comprising the following joined sheets: (i) Ordnance Survey...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1849/33

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MR 1/1849/33
Date
1854-1861
Description

Devon and Cornwall. Map comprising the following joined sheets: (i) Ordnance Survey twelve-inch Plymouth sheets [1-2]. (ii) Reduced-size photographic copies of parts of the Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 County Series sheets Devon CXVII.10-12, [14-16]; Devon CXVIII.9, [13]; and [Devon CXXIV.1, 5]. The combined map covering the area between [Saltash], Fancy Wood, the Laira and Antony. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile. The Ordnance Survey twelve-inch Plymouth sheets surveyed and contoured by Captain Cameron, Royal Engineers, 1854-1855; engraved at the Ordnance Survey office, Southampton, 1857; sheet 2 published 31 December 1858 and sheet 1 published 30 June 1859. MS title: 'Plymouth North Eastern Defences Plan Shewing the Method of Taking Up the Lines Proposed in May 1861': coloured MS additions show fortifications and defence lines. Signed by Captain E F DuCane, Royal Engineers, 16 August 1861. A sheet of tracing paper bearing, in MS, an extension eastward from Fort Efford is affixed to the right-hand edge of the map.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
Printed, with MS colouring
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9443069/

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