| Description | The Plott or description of Boxworth……. being parte of the demeanes of the Lady Ann Cutts. Surveyed by Matthew Hayward. Dated 26 April 1650. Scale of original: 13? inches to mile. Size of original 53 inches x 38 inches [55 x 37 according to Dickinson]. Whole parish of Boxwroth except southern tip [probably on part of map now missing] south of modern Bird's Pastures Farm, but including 6 acres in north-west of Childerley [marked 'Childerly Grownd']. Names of fields but not furlongs. Arable distinguished. Plots numbered with reference to a field book. Rectory land distinguished. Areas not generally stated. Boxworth and Knapwell churches and a windmill on the boundary with Lolworth shown in elevation. Much of parish in open fields. Conventionalised drawings of trees and deer in margins. Decorated cartouche with long explanation of colours and symbols used (photographic copy). Huntingdon Record Office reference: LR23/367. See also TR373/P7. For a survey to accompany plan, see P15/28/1. For a more detailed description, see A.S. Bendall, Maps, land and society : a history, with a carto-bibliography of Cambridgeshire estate maps, c1600-1836 Cambridge University Press, 1992, pages 40-41. |