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Somerset-Bishops Lydeard-1838

CBTM:
07162
Map Date:
1838
Repository reference:
TNA [PRO] IR 30/30/46
Historic county:
Somerset
Town name:
Bishops Lydeard
Map type:
Tithe
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
ST169296
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
ST 1228
Comments on map:
Map was 'Taken from old Surveys'. The scale appears to be intended as 1:6336, but the map is on parchment, which has evidently shrunk, so that now 4.72 inches = 40 chains.
Scale:
1:6336
Production mode:
manuscript
Number of parts:
2
Colouring:
Buildings, water
Buildings:
inhabited and uninhabited buildings distinguished
Known copies of map:
TNA [PRO] IR 30/30/46.
Waterbodies:
shown
Map material:
parchment
Tenement boundaries group:
apparently fairly complete
Ordnance Survey's
1886-7
1:2500
1:10,560
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