| Description | Surveyor: William Senior
Scale: of 16 poles in an inch [1:3200]. Size: 69 x 50 cm.
Materials: coloured paints on vellum.
Centred on: SK059734.
Notes: cardinal points at edges, north at top. Shows 400 acres with houses on street in diagrammatic perspective, market place in 'Buxton Towne': open fields with lands in ownership (dotted lines), furlong names, area, conventional sign and number, free uncoloured, named closes, area, conventional sign and number: buildings, 'Buxton Well', pool with 3 towers: water mill: 'Pooles Hole' [Pooles Cavern], entrance, elevation: river, two branches: roads, 'Grin Low edge' stylised rock face, the 'Geald field' with rocks.
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:
Birchet Hall in the countie of Darbie belonging to the right honorable William Earle of Newcastle. Surveid by William Senior on the scale of 16 in an inche in the yeare of our lord 1631. Surveyor: William Senior. Scale: 16 [poles]in an inch [1:3200]. Size: 50 x 30 cm. Materials: coloured paints on vellum. Centred on: SK028870 Notes: cardinal points at edges, top of sheet west. Estate map, 107 acres, of Birch Hall, one colour, with named closes, area, reference letters and numbers: houses and buildings, some 2 gabled with tenants names: drawn on left hand portion of a page containing part of map of Buxton. Location: Portland Estate Office, Welbeck, Senior Newcastle volume, 57 verso; copies in DRO, D7676/BagC/289 coloured tracing; DRO D6164/1 black and white photocopy; DRO, D1826Z/Z1 black and white photocopy; Buxton Museum, photograph and 3 photocopies. |