Catalogue description Surrey: Richmond. Map of Richmond Common, Petersham Common and Mortlake Common, with...

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Details of WORK 32/687
Reference: WORK 32/687
Description:

Surrey: Richmond. Map of Richmond Common, Petersham Common and Mortlake Common, with parts of Roehampton, Kingston, Wimbledon and Combe, showing the extent of the 'New Park' [Richmond Park] to be enclosed by King Charles I. Also showing field names and boundaries, acreages, buildings, trees and names of landowners and occupiers. Scale: 1 inch to about 20 chains. Compass indicator. [By Nicholas Lane.] Some of the annotations are thought to be in the hand of Charles I
Date: c.1632-1638
Related material:

For a photograph of this map, see MPI 1/752/3

For a 19th-century manuscript copy of this map, see MR 1/295
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Dimensions: 94 cm x 118 cm
Physical condition: MS, on parchment, coloured. Faded.
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred on 3 October 1994 from the Museum of London Library
Custodial history: This map was apparently transferred from the Office of Works to the London Museum (a forerunner of the current Museum of London) on long-term loan in January 1924. Its object reference number at the museum was B814.

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