Digital Images Archive
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MPHH1-594-3
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Original Plan [of 1794] for the mid-western part of MPHH1-132 from Crab Tree to the Hand Cross - Ansty road. Includes the local triangulation. Names display a certain carelessness, eg Pease Pottagate Gate, which has the merit of demonstrating that names on the fair drawing are not taken solely from the Original Plan.
To the south, a road traverse connects to Cowfold church - no doubt tying into a trig. Nearby there is a pencil note: "This plan ought to have been taken more care of, as the Survey will some time or other be finished. The note must be earlier then 1813 when Old Series sheet 9 was published. There is an extensive area to the south which is blank except for the triangulation.
Here a road traverse extends three miles south from Ansty, leading not to a trig but to an obscure farm building in a valley; it seems to represent the very first stage in traversing this area, terminating just short of the MPHH1-132 neatline where it could close on a traverse on the Plan to its east. It was important to close traverses in some way or other as a check on errors.