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A collection of engraved plans, views, etc., of parts of Great Britain and Ireland, partly formed from dr. Ducarel's papers: with the following manuscript pieces among others (the arrangement and numbering is not Gough's): Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, 18th century

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A collection of engraved plans, views, etc., of parts of Great Britain and Ireland, partly formed from dr. Ducarel's papers: with the following manuscript pieces among others (the arrangement and numbering is not Gough's): Bedfordshire:

  1. Fol. 2., 'Bedford Castle, 1765', a plan
  2. Fol. 4v. 'Dunstable Church, 1719', a coloured view, followed by some antiquities
  3. Fol. 5v. 'A Southern Prospect of Upper Gravenhurst
  4. Fol. 7v. 'Elstow Priory, 1765'
  5. Fol. 8. tomb in Luton Church, 1735
  6. Fol. 8. Ampthill Cross, by J. Essex
  7. Fol. 9v. Leighton Buzzard Cross, 1788
  8. Fols. 14v, 15. two views of Shidlington: (i) (fols. 17, 17v) four views in Wrest park
  9. Fols. 17v, 18. two of Bletsoe house

And views of the following churches:

  1. Upper Gravenhurst (fol. 6)
  2. Nether Gravenhurst (fol. 6)
  3. Higham Gobion (fol. 6v)
  4. Meppershall (two, fols. 6v, 7)
  5. Clophill (fol. 7)
  6. Stondon (fol. 7v)
  7. Holywell (fol. 7v)
  8. Astwick (fol. 7v)
  9. Houghton (fol. 9)
  10. Leighton (fol. 9, three, and brasses 1787-90)
  11. Shidlington (two, fol. 14)

Berkshire:

  1. Fol. 19. 'The South Prospect of Reading ...' in pencil
  2. Fol. 22. The Pusey horn, coloured
  3. Fol. 22v, etc. several views and plans of Windsor, including a detailed account of the Engine House 1718, and a detailed plan of the Castle Ditch
  4. Fol. 37v, etc. several views of Abingdon
  5. Fol. 42v. Hungerford park, two, 1785
  6. Fol. 43v. plan of Wallingford castle

And views of the following churches:

  1. Aston Upthorpe (fol. 36v, two)
  2. Englefield (fol. 40, a tomb, 1785)
  3. Aldworth (fol. 41v)
  4. Basildon (fol. 41v, three)
  5. Sandford (fol. 42)
  6. Challow (fol. 44, two)

Buckinghamshire, (fol. 45) copy of an old plan of Boarstall castle: and views of the following churches:

  1. Eton chapel (fol. 49v, a large drawing)
  2. Pangbourne (fol. 53, a tomb)
  3. Stoke Pogis (fol. 53v, three)
  4. Pitstone (fol. 67v)
  5. Cholsbury (fol. 67v)
  6. Hawridge (fol. 67v)
  7. Ivingho (fol. 67v)
  8. Meresworth (fol. 68)
  9. Aston Clinton (fol. 68)

Dates

  • Creation: 18th century

Extent

1 volume

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

Gough Maps 1

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 17498

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