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D7676 - Bagshawe family of Foolow, antiquarians, collectors and solicitors - [13th-20th cent]
BagC - The Bagshawe Collection - [13th-20th cent]
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D7676/BagC/241
Title
A map or draught of all the wasts and Commons belonging to the Towne and Liberties of Castleton
Date
3 Sep 1691
Description
As it stands now divided among the freeholders and Coppyholders of the said town and liberties of Castleton according to their Majesties writ of partition. By Luke Leigh and Edmund Hall, Surveyors. Scale 8 ins to one chain.
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 or draft of all the wasts and commons belonging to the Towne and Liberties of Castleton as it is now Divided among the Freeholders and Coppyholders of the said town and liberties of Castleton according to their Majesties writt of partition the third day of September in the third yeare of their Ma:ties Reigne and in the yeare of our Lord 1691. By us Luke Leigh, Edm: Hall, Surveyors. Surveyors: Luke Leigh, Edmund Hall. Scale: a Scale of Chaines to this Map 40 [1:6400]: divisions are numbered from right to left. Size: 35 x 58 cm., irregular. Materials: paint and ink on parchment. Centred on: SK150829 Notes: cardinal points at edges, top of sheet marked south actually SE. Rough sketch of the wastes and commons, 790 acres, surrounding Castleton, town in the centre is left blank: shown with single line boundaries: each parcel naming freeholder or copyholder with area: three furlongs south of the town are divided into lands following strip pattern: three rakes 'Daysie Rake', 'Durtlowe Rake', and 'Weetrake', drawn with double lines across the south common: many footways shown across 'North waste', invariably where they cross the boundary they are named 'yate' (drawn as ladder stiles), 'Oxlowe yate, Cawlowe yate, Wham yate, Lidyate, Hollin Cross', etc.: houses situated at perimeter of the commons sketched with roofs cross-hatched: 'Red seates' [Cameron I, 56] made prominent: the most south-west close is noted '70 acres left for digging and delveing turffes'. Location: DRO, D267/69/1; D7676/BagC/241, contemporary copy; DRO, D6171/MAPS1;
Level
File
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Bagshawe family of Foolow
Physical Description
14 ins × 25 ins
Archivist Note
Respaced
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