| 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 Allotments of the Common and Common Pastures of Ashford and Sheldon in the County of Derby as the same were laid out and allotted in the Year 1767. Scale: of 33 chains [1:6400] Size: 60 x 82 cm. Materials: ink on parchment, some colour, wrapped into bundle with award. Centred on: SK182698. Notes: 8 point compass rose, top of sheet NNE. Shows houses in block plan, some ancient enclosures, roads, paths, 'marble machine', some landholders named, River Wye, Great andLittle Commons, Finn Pasture: carefully drawn: notes 'all the allotments surrounded with red are demesne': signed by Wm.Wyatt, Sam. Brailsford and Sam. White. Location: DRO, D747/A/PI 12/1; copies in DRO, microfilm M/721; Sheffield Archives, Lux 26, tracing; |