LevelItem
Finding NoDCBB/7/523
Extent1 item
TitleHolderness drainage plan
Date6 Aug 1833
DescriptionA full and complete map or plan of all the low lands and grounds directed to be made by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 2nd year of the reign of the present Majesty King William the Fourth, for the draining and improving of certain low grounds and carrs lying and being in the parishes, townships, hamlets, lordships, precincts and territories of Sutton, Ganstead, Swine, Benningholme, Benningholme Grange and Fairholme, North Skirlaugh, Rowton, Arnold, Long Riston, Level, Heigholme and Hallytreeholme, Brandesburton and Bursall, Eske, Tickton, Weel, Rough, Meaux and Wahgen [Warne] in Holderness in the East Riding of the County of York, expressing the names of the several owners and quantities in acres, roods and perches of all the same several low lands and grounds in every such parish, township and place respectively'
Shows lands either side of Holderness drain and east of the River Hull with acreages of fields and names of owners.
Commissioner: William Stickney
Surveyors: Edward Page and Richard Allen Stickney
Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch
[paper, coloured, 111 inches x 54 inches
[Found in strong room and presumed part of this collection of plans]
Related MaterialA further copy of this plan is held at DDX924/2/2
AccessStatusOpen
PhysicalDescriptionLarge map, rolled. Surface cleaned and local repairs and infills applied September 2023.
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