Map of Dorchester in Dorset England
Commissioned by the Worshipful R.L. KINGSTON Esq Mayor of Dorchester
and Aldermen of the Corporation in the year 1771
Extract from Municipal Records of Dorchester Page 483 relating to Corporation Accounts:- "Dec 30th 1772 January 18th : Dr Cummings by order of the Corporation for a Plan of the town, engaving the same for Mr Hutchins's History of the County of Dorset £15. 19s. 0d"
Extracted from 'Hutchins' by Michael Russell OPC for Fordington April 2010
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Scale is 2 furlongs or 440 yards to three and a half inches