| Description | Copy made from the original held in the Duchy of Lancaster Records at The National Archives
This copy 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:
Endorsed 'No.23 Bowden Chapell'. [c.1640]. Scale: of 48 [chains] [1:7900] with dividers. Size: 90 x 47 cm. Materials: coloured ink on paper. Centred on: SK058789 Notes: top of sheet east. Shows wasts and commons in Chapel en le Frith with boundaries, acreage, proprietors, field names, 1893 acres with divisions into best, middle, worst sorts of land partitioned equally with one part Rex, some boundary features, crosses, walls, gates. Martinside Cross, Sparrowpit Yate, Colborn Moss: houses including Ridge Hall with 3 stories and 4 gables: inhabitants identified: lime kilns: table with areas by grade. Location: The National Archives, Kew: PRO, MPC 1/23; copies in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House, Muniment Room L/30/12 No.23, 2 authenticated copies made in 1879; DRO D7676/BagC/293b. 70 x 95 cm. (irregular): endorsed 'This is a copy of the certified copy ... made 1908 by W.W.B.' 'I certify that the above is a true and authentic copy, 18 April 1879. Joseph Redington, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records'; Sheffield Archives, OD1439, copy; DRO, D6171Maps9/2 |