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| arc04458 | |
| Plan of the Furnace at Chapeltown with the Watercourses above and below it, describing by a gilded line the proposed Cut through the Lands of the Duke of Norfolk to the intended Furnace near Cowley | |
| Sheffield_Chapeltown | |
| 1777 | |
| 1500-1799 | |
Scale 4 chains : 1 inch [20 inches : 1 mile] Surveyor: William Fairbank II. Covers the Blackburn Brook from the north edge of Parkin Wood to Cowley; levels added. All watercourses, old and new, shown, and the Chapel Furnace and dam; measurements of levels listed. Marked: Thomas Parkin tenant, wear [weir], John Gibson tenant, Sir? William Horton's land, Tanner Dam, Parkin Wood, Samuel Hallowes land, [?] tail, Duke of Norfolk's land, furnace, garden, dam, turnpike road from Barnsley to Sheffield, John Hague's cottage, intended wear [weir], Hesley Park, ancient water course, [dead Lan?], [?-forth] Wroes land, [... level continued ... the present by goight], Broom Fields, turnpike road [from] Woodhead to Rotherham, Holme, Samuel Smith tenant, John Kirks farm, Pond Yard, John Ellis tenant, Nicko Fields [Nicho Fields?], quarry, Lathe Ing, The Hill, Cowley, Dimensions approx. 68.5 x 19 cm. Original at Sheffield City Archives: ACM/MAPS/16/9 (altrefno ACM/MAPS/Ecc/217L) Digitised with financial support from Sheffield and District Family History Society in memory of Professor David Hey (1938-2016) founder and life president of the Society. |
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