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D2742 - Elmton and Creswell: copy maps - 1983
MZ - Copy documents - 1983
1 - Elmton and Creswell Manor - 1983
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D2742/MZ/1/1
Title
Map of the manor of Elmton and Creswell surveyed by Joseph Dickinson in 1722, drawn in 1983 from the original at the Welbeck Estate
Date
1983
Description
This map is described in the Derbyshire Record Society's "A Catalogue of Local Maps of Derbyshire c.1528–1800" (compiled by Harold Nichols, revised by Mary Wiltshire assisted by Susan Woore, published 2012). The description reads as follows:
A MAP of the MANNOR of ELMTON and CRESWELL in the County of DARBY: Survey'd for Sr. John Rodes of Barlborough, Bartt by Joseph Dickinson. Anno Dom 1722. Surveyor: Joseph Dickinson. Scale: of 20 Gunters chains Four in an inch [1:3200] with dividers. Size: 126 x 148 cm. Materials: coloured ink on parchment. Centred on: SK505736 Notes: 16 point compass rose, north at top. Estate map showing remnants of open field system, closes, field names, reference number and letter, or 'Freehold', single line and hedge boundaries, commons, village houses in distinctive perspective, Elmton church: lanes in colour with double lines, paths, woods and streams: Reference Table of 30 Elmton and 11 Creswell tenants and 7 freeholders in Creswell: extensive unsophisticated coloured floral decorations at cartouche and side: coat-of-arms. Location: Portland Estate Office, Welbeck, Inventory number 012968; copies in DRO, D2742M/Z1/1, colour copy much reduced, 27 x 37 cm. copy drawn by Stephen & Kevin Archer. Table of tenants difficult to read; DRO, D2742M/Z1/2, black and white paper copy. 29 x 20 cm., an enlargement of part of DRO, D2742M/Z1/1; NottsArchives, DBS 5L, photograph
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Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
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