Catalogue description Yorkshire: Thorne Moor and Goole Moor (Inclesmoor). Map of lands bounded by rivers Aire,...

Yorkshire: Thorne Moor and Goole Moor (Inclesmoor). Map of lands bounded by rivers Aire, Ouse, Humber and Trent, Don (Tourne) and old Don (Doen), partly in Lincolnshire; Hatfield and Crowle mark southern edge. Also shows other towns and villages, meres, named pastures, park; roads; trees and plants. Buildings, bridges and crosses in bird's-eye view. Triple division of Airmyn Moor into 'parts of 10,000'. Text in Latin: place-names and cardinal points in English. No scale shown. Oriented to the south. Cardinal points shown. Endorsed: 'No 61 Indorsed thus, Snayth The platt of Water of Eyre'. This covers an older endorsement, now obscured. To illustrate a dispute over turbaries and pasturage in the moor between the Duchy of Lancaster and St Mary's Abbey, York.

For papers in the case and another map which covers the same area in less detail, see fols 30-47 in

DL 42/12

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 3640; chapter 12 by M Beresford in Local Maps and Plans from Medieval England, eds R A Skelton and P D A Harvey, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986); R Mitchell and A Janes, Maps: their untold stories, (Bloomsbury, 2014), pp22-23 profile and colour plate