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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5557/19/2/2
TitleMap showing 'The Abbot's Way' through Radbourne and Langley Commons
Date[c1738]
Description[damaged]

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:

No title. n.d.[c1738]. Scale: of 40 chains or halfe an English mile [1:6700]. Size: 70 x 55 cm., piece missing top left corner and piece cut out towards top right. Materials: ink and colour on parchment. Centred on: SK296372 Notes:compass directions in margins. Shows Radbourne, Markeaton, Langley, Mackworth Commons with Abbot's Way through them: Mickleover and Mackworth houses depicted in perspective, Mackworth church, fields drawn with hedges, gates onto Common, boundary ditch and much other detail. See Mickleover for papers and maps concerning legal case re dispute between Manor of Radbourne and the inhabitants of Mickleover. Location:DRO, D5557/19/2/2
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorChandos-Pole family of Radbourne
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