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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/RI/65
TitleLittleover enclosure map and award
Date1768-1769
DescriptionThis 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 Manor of Littleover in the County of Derby shewing the several ancient enclosures and allotments referring to the award hereunto annex'd. Survd. in 1768. J. Beighton delint. Surveyor: J.Beighton.Scale: of 20 chains [1:4800]. Size: 72 x 91 cm. Materials: ink on parchment, roads coloured yellow. Centred on: SK3234 Notes: compass rose, top of sheet NNW. Plan attached to enclosure award, 1200 acres of enclosures and allotments with reference numbers in two sequences: 1 field name 'Cross Close': shows adjoining liberties, roads, paths, buildings in block plan: Award names commissioners, George Ingman, Wilford (Notts); John Beighton the younger late of Radbourne but now of Haylewood (Derbys), Thomas Harpur of Etwall. Title in diamond shaped cartouche. Location: DRO, Q/RI 65; copies in DRO, D769/12/17/4, Scale: 25 chains to 4½". Size: 98 x 80 cm. Materials: ink on blue linen paper. Notes: names added later in pencil to plots; DRO, Q/R1c 43a[i], Enclosure Act and award with folded black and white photocopy of map on linen paper, with pencil addition '1769 Normanton Road set out at 60' from A to B; DRO, Q/R1c 43a[ii], Size; 72 x 55cm., Materials: black and white photo on linen paper, truncated at bottom; DRO, microfilm M/721
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
CopiesA microfilm copy of the map is available on M/721.
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