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RefNoK305/P/1
AltRefNo305/P1
TitleEstate map of West Wratting by Robert Shaftoe. (F)
DescriptionA map of an Estate situate at West Wratting in the County of Cambridge belonging to Robert Shaftoe Esqr. Surveyed in the Year 1771'. Scale: 20 in to 1 mile. 22½ in x 30 in. Parchment. 167a 3r 27p in three blocks. The Paddocks ('Valley Paddocks' and 'Valley House' on inclosure map 1813) with adjacent 'Lordship Heath' and 'Oxcroft Heath' in the northwest of the parish, 'Congary Wells Plantation' (near Congary Well?), and Oxcroft Farm and adjacent closes to the south of Scarlett's Lane. Copyhold, freehold and land held of Jesus College and Peterhouse distinguished. Table gives acreages. Field edges coloured, as are compass-rose and dividers over scale. Title set in uncoloured cartouche. See also A S Bendall, Maps, Land and Society: a history with a cartobibliography of Cambridgeshire estate maps c1600-1836, (Cambridge University Press 1992), p 329.
Date1771
CreatorNameEaden, Spearing and Raynes
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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