| 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:
Bradwell Common. [1639?] Scale: no scale [1:12500]. Size: 45 x 54 cm. Materials: ink on paper, coloured paint for division boundaries. Centred on: SK175810 Notes: Cardinal points at the edges, but orientation is incorrect and variable, top of sheet south. Shows division of waste and commons, 1315 acres, on Bradwell Moor, with a small area Bradwell Hill, east of village: 5 divisions of land by grade (best, middle, worst sort), areas: features on perimeter boundary only shown, 'yates', crosses, pinfold, place names, The Forest Wall. Poynton Crosse, Robins Crosse, the Blackpool: Bradwell and Little Hucklow represented by rough stylised houses, coloured: roads in Bradwell: table lists total area for each sort of land. Location: The National Archives, Kew: PRO, MPC 1/19; copy in DRO, D920 Z/Z1 negative photocopy. |