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Catalogue description Ordnance Survey: Miscellanea
| Reference: | OS 3 |
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| Title: | Ordnance Survey: Miscellanea |
| Description: |
This series includes a variety of material, including some early correspondence; rules and regulations; progress reports; scientific and technical papers; monographs about the history of the Ordnance Survey; catalogues; maps and plans; and published booklets, information leaflets and gazetteers. There are a number of papers of Major-General William Roy, FRS (1726-1790): originally of the Royal Engineers, he served as Deputy Quartermaster-General, Engineer in Ordinary and Surveyor-General of Coasts. |
| Date: | 1755-1993 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 528 files, flat sheets and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 1966 Ordnance Survey |
| Custodial history: | The papers on copyright in Ordnance Survey maps were given to the OS Library in 1991. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
Subject index with paper series list in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew. |
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