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PlC - Correspondence in the Portland (London) Collection, and Papers of W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 1664-1809
1 - Correspondence relating to the Harley estates based at Wimpole and Welbeck (1707-39), with various earlier enclosures; 1664-1739
Document Reference
Pl C 1/424
Title
Bill of costs for making a cistern at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire; n.d. [c.1723]
Date
1723 (c)
Extent
1 f
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Particulars of moneys laid out on the construction of a cistern at the west end of the L[illegible]drish Garden 'to serve the house at Wimpole'; specification that the cistern is to be '18 Foot square by 4 Foot 3 Inches and 35 hundred parts of an Inch in Depth wch will contain 100 Hogsheads'
Date estimated by comparison with other references to the cistern-building in letters dated 1723.
Term
building works, Wimpole, cisterns
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PL328
/Cambridgeshire/England
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