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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D4775/12/1
TitlePhotocopy: A survey of a sheepwalk on Darley Moor belonging to the Darley Hall estate with a view of Darley Nether Hall. 36 x 42 cm. No scale. Copied from a c1700 original held in the British Library (ref MS 6687 ff 162-163)
Date20th cent
DescriptionThis 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 survey of a sheepwalk on Darley Moor, belonging to the Darley Hall estate, with a view of Darley Nether Hall about 1700]. Scale: no scale [1:8000]. Size: 57 x 42 cm. Materials: coloured ink on paper. Centred on: SK276637 Notes: top of sheet north-east. Land around Hall Dale containing sheep walk, with topographical features named as springs, 'siks', roads, woods: Woodbrook, 'sheepwash', 'malthouse': well drawn bird's eye view, larger than scale, elevation of Darley Hall with associated buildings: other houses named including 'Malte House', some trees and field boundaries: roads to Chesterfield called the Hall Rake and the Church Rake, a road called Jagger gate: note in William Woolleys hand under Darley Hall 'The above is a view of Darley Hall alias Darley Nether Hall, the ancient seat of the Columbell family which house was pulled down ao 1796'. Compass rose. Location: British Library, Add.6687 folios162v-163 MATLOCK; copies in DRO, D4775/12/1, photo reproduction, black and white, 42 x 36 cm; DRO, D897/Z/P1 black and white photocopy.
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorErnest Paulson, local historian
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