Catalogue description Nottinghamshire: Sherwood Forest. 'A Plan of the Hays of Birkland and Bilhagh within the...

Nottinghamshire: Sherwood Forest. 'A Plan of the Hays of Birkland and Bilhagh within the Forest of Sherwood in the County of Nottingham belonging to the Crown. Surveyed in the year 1791 by Order of the Commissioners appointed by an Act of Parliament passed in the 26th Year of King George the 3rd. By John Renishaw'. Shows Edwinstowe church, trees and various named features. Reference table gives acreage of numbered plots. Scale: 1 inch to 10 chains. Title is towards upper left of sheet. Dedication, towards upper right of sheet: 'To the Honorable Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled This Plan of Birkland and Bilhagh in the Forest of Sherwood is humbly presented with the Fourteenth Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state and condition of the Woods Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown Land Revenue Office March 1793'. below dedication, note: 'Copied from the Original in the House of Commons. By Robert Gray. Annotated in left-hand margin: 'We have carefully compared this plan with the Original, and certify the Same to be a true Copy'. Signed: John James, Robert Gray.

For other versions of this map, see

MPZ 1/8

MPE 1/547

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 2910