Catalogue description Essex, Suffolk. 'Harwich Harbour': chart showing Harwich Harbour with soundings and...

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Details of MPHH 1/467
Reference: MPHH 1/467
Description:

Essex, Suffolk. 'Harwich Harbour': chart showing Harwich Harbour with soundings and Landguard Fort and Marsh. Scale: 6.8 inches to 1 statute mile [1:9318]. Compass indicators. Insets: View of the approach to Harwich Harbour; views of landmarks. Admiralty chart 1491: surveyed 1842; engraved J and C Walker; published 1 September 1843; with corrections, September 1867-September 1872 (including re-survey, 1869). Coloured MS reference note and additions showing the line of the Ipswich and Felixstowe Railway, tramway and road and the inundation of Landguard Common (or Marsh) on 14 November 1875. Annotated: 'C. J.O.G.'; 'With report. 2.12.75 on Colchester 8/869.873'; signed Major F A Marindin, Royal Engineers. Endorsed: 'Chart showing Inundation of 14 Nov. 1875... "Plan C" in suit [Petition of Right of Colonel George] Tomline v. War Dep t _Ipswich 4 Jan. 1876'. Overlay: small eastern extension to 'Cork Light Rev'.

Date: 1843-1876
Related material:

For another plan and documents relating to the Petition of Right see

and MPHH 1/468

HO 45/9466/76761

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: F 253
Former reference in The National Archives: WO 78/2187
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Map designation: Admiralty chart 1491
Dimensions: 104.1 cm x 66 cm
Physical condition: Printed; with coloured MS additions
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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