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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D258/22/11
Former Reference	D258/46/12
Title	Plan of Carsington including references to changes after enclosure; ink on paper. No scale Size 30 × 39 cm
Date	17th cent
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: [Carsington village and closes] [16--]. Scale: no scale [1:3500]. Size: 31 x 39 cm. Materials: ink on paper. Centred on: SK252534 Notes: top of sheet south. Schematic plan of crofts, roads including Carsington Town Street, Ashbourne Way, Hopton Street with adjacent closes: named fields, personal names in crofts: houses, rough stylised plan: apparently designed to record the village's gates: 'There were antiently fower comon yates leadinge into the ffields and grounds in Carsington but since the inclosure they lye open [they] were repaired at a publique charge by neighbourhood, 'Vallance Yate, Heye Yate, Jump Yate and Hursteds Yate', 'Wynd mill' and 'Flax piece' noted. North recorded in marginal note 'Carsington Hill lying north of the whole town': a rough sketch apparently drawn with Hopton. Endorsed 'Carsington Mapp…'. Location: DRO, D258/22/11
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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