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Q - Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions - 1558-1971
RI - Quarter Sessions (registration): Enclosure maps and awards - 18th-19th cent
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
Q/RI/84
Title
Scropton enclosure award
Date
1764
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 several allotments in the Common Fields, Common Meadows, Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Parish and Manor of Scropton in the County of Derby referred to in the aforegoing Award. 1764. Surveyor: [Saml. Brailsford]. Scale: of 40 chains [1:6400]. Size: 85 x 73 cm. Materials: coloured ink on vellum. Centred on: SK196317 Notes: compass rose, north at top. Inclosure map, about 700 acres, showing closes with reference number and area: arable fields distinguished: common fields and common heaths of Scropton and Foston with field-names, adjacent owners, hedges drawn, coloured green: roads, private carriage roads with double line: footways with single dotted line: waterways, named where crossing surveyed area: houses in block plan on enclosed land: a Reference Table gives 36 Proprietors names and numbers referring to the respective allotments in the several fields, meadows and commons and land for gravel: a very detailed map showing fine draughtsmanship: 'Sam. Brailsford' is one of the Commissioners who have signed the plan, others are W. Wyattt Henry Chawner, Tho. Harpur, Tho. Trimer. Location: DRO, Q/RI 84, award attached; contemporary copy in TNA:PRO, MPAA 1/5, 1" to 8 chains extracted from The National Archives, Kew: PRO, C54/6149.
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Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions
Copies
A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office, Digital Repository, Enclosure Maps and Awards.
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