| Description | Showing demesne, freehold and copyhold lands. Surveyed in 1752 by Samuel Brailsford, examined and signed by jurors of the Duke of Devonshire's court baron on 13 May 1756. Scale 1 inch: 4 chains.
94cm x 138cm
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:
Ashford Lordship. Belonging to the most Noble William Duke of Devonshire. Survey'd and Laid down by a scale of Four Chain in an Inch by James Brailsford. 1756. Surveyor: James Brailsford. Scale: fine dividers associated with Brailsford, 4 chains [1:3200]. Size: 94 x 140 cm. Materials: ink on linen backed paper, with waterclours, fragile, torn at edges. Centred on: SK195700. Notes: compass indicator of decorative design, top of sheet at NNE. Shows open fields with dotted lines for lands, strips coloured and numbered: field names, reference numbers and letters: closes with boundary wall or fence: field names, tenant, copyhold noted: perspective houses and church in south elevation: River Wye, mill, 3 bridges: named roads, Churchdale Lane, Castleway Lane, Shelly Lane: Fin Pasture 'demesne freehold land divided into beast gates….': commons, Ashford Common and Monsor Dale noted: an Explanation distinguishes colours for Devonshire lands, Devonshire Demesne Lands and houses, Freeholders land and houses, Copyholders lands and houses: reference letters in every 'Mean Field' and lists 100 tenants and their parcels name, or name of 'Mean Field': a panel statement records that at 'a Court Baron of the ... Duke of Devonshire held at Ashford this thirteenth day of May 1756', the homagers and jurors examined the map and certify it as a 'true and perfect Plan of the Scituation Buttals and Boundings of all and every Parcel ...' signed by 20 men and the Steward: 'fish scale' rock face along Wye valley: Devonshire coat-of-arms: endorsed 'A Plan of Ashford in 1752'. Location: DRO, D504/195/1; copy in DRO, microfilm M/721 |