Reference
FAC75
Title
Map of Kimbolton, Swineshead, Tilbrook, Over Stow, showing Estate of Kimbolton Castle, owned by Edward Winkfield [Wingfield?]. "Surveyed, plotted and measured" September 1582 by Nicholas Bleake.
Date free text
September 1582
Production date
From: 1582 To: 1582
Scope and Content
Inset terrier of the land with acreages. Attractive map with some buildings inperspective, e.g. churches, houses, and a windmill. Also people and animals such as huntsman with his hounds and a fox in a wood; men ploughing with oxen; shepherd with sheep; cowherd with cows, etc., are drawn in.
Note: see also two copies of this map, re-drawn by John Johnson of the drawing office, County Hall, in November 1986
- Kept in stackroom under the number Fac 75 (a and b)
Original in the possession of Mr. Knight, Middle Farm, Oakley, Bedfordshire at time of copying.
Level of description
item