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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D1088/MP/1
TitleA True Plan of the Lordship of Dethick belonging to the Right Worshipful Thomas Blackwell Esq
Date1718
Description(as taken in the year 1635 by John Bunting) Draught Enlarged by Charles Clay.' Parchment, coloured, 32 in x 28.5 in, 16 yards (?) to 1 in [bird's eye views of the hall, chapel and 2 water mills]

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 True Plan of the Lordship of Dethick Belonging to the Right Worshipfull Thomas Blakwell Esq. (as taken in the year 1635 by John Bunting) Draught enlarged by Charles Clay 1718. Scale: of 60 poles [1:3200] with dividers. Size: 83 x 72 cm. Materials: coloured ink on parchment. Centred on: SK328580 Notes: estate map 746 acres, showing closes with reference numbers: house with 3 storeys and 3 gables, chapel, dovecote, outbuildings, 2 water mills, all red roof, in distinctive perspective: lanes with continuous and dotted lines, woods, stream, stone bridge, boundary marks: table of 36 closes with areas: compass indicator embodied within arms of dividers surmounting scale rule: strapping decoration for title cartouche and reference table. Location: DRO, D1088 M/Pl; copy in DRO, D4996/6/3, tracing paper.
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorManor of Dethick

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