Catalogue description Romney and Walland Marshes

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Details of RYE/132/13, 14
Reference: RYE/132/13, 14
Title: Romney and Walland Marshes
Description:

The description of Romney Marsh Walland Marsh Denge Marsh & Guldeford Marsh ... By Math. Poker, 1617. Republished 1845 by W. Tiffen, Hythe & Folkestone Ex sump: David Papillon Esqr. Dedicated 'To the Right Honble. the Lords, and other Proprietors of the Lands in these Levels' by James Cole. 2.3in. to 1m. 24½ x 32.

 

Includes the area from Rye and Appledore to Hythe. Shows and names channel sluices, walls, creeks, sewers, guts and bridges. Shows highways; churches (mostly as conventional buildings) and houses (some named), mills, beacons, pounds, 'cabones' [fishing cabins], and groynes drawn in perspective view. Description of the way the waters drain. There is another copy of this map, RYE/132/14.
Date: 1617 (1845)
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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