| Description | Centred on area of Potter's Wood, Pype Wood, Spittal wood, Short Wood, Grange Wood and Coton Park, with Netherseal to the south, Rosliston to the north, Lullington to the west, and Seale Grange to the south-west. Undated, but handwriting appears to be 16th cent.
This document is number 8 in Derbyshire Record Office’s “50 Treasures” selection. For more information, click the link below.
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:
[Birds-eye view sketches of six villages in SE Derbyshire, with route of 'procession waye'.] [15--?]. Scale: no scale [1:14000]. Size: 40 x 44 cm. Materials: coloured ink on paper. Centred on: SK2715 Notes: cardinal points at margins, top of sheet east. Detailed map showing Netherseal, Lullington, Coton-in-the-Elms, Rosliston, Linton, Overseal and in Staffordshire, Clifton Campville, with 3 churches, village houses: cultivated areas indicated: gates shown from villages to fields: 'fylde': buildings, woods etc. in enlarged scale: 1 tenant name:. 'Procession way' and other paths marked: Seale Grange: woods including Ealingewoddes Close and Potters Wood, trees drawn distinctively in perspective: central wood [Coton Park] divided into seven sections and 'Lawnde', surrounded by wattle perimeter fence labelled 'the owle ring heige' and each contiguous wood boundary similarly fenced. Location: DRO, D77/8/10; DRO, mf721 |