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A map of a Close near Brightside in T. Handley's possession belonging to the Duke of Norfolk

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A map of a Close near Brightside in T. Handley's possession belonging to the Duke of Norfolk
Sheffield_Brightside
1760
1500-1799

Scale 2 chains : 1 inch [40 inches: 1 mile]

Surveyor: William Fairbank II.

A close called the Lee, adjoining the River Don, showing one of the Brightside weirs and a salmon heck (a heck was a frame of parallel bars in a river to obstruct the passage of fish); acreage.

Brightside Forge and Nether Forge, including part of the Carbrook Estate.

F.B. 16, p. 154.

C, p.21

Dimensions: 29 x 18.5 cm.

Original at Sheffield City Archives: ACM/MAPS/SheD/794S.

Digitised with financial support from Sheffield and District Family History Society in memory of Professor David Hey (1938-2016) founder and life president of the Society.

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