The Lands & Premises belonging to the River Dee Company—Boydell 1772 (1837) map
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'A Plan of so much of the Lands & Premises belonging to the River Dee Company, as lye between the City of Chester and the Towns of Flint and Park Gate; shewing particularly the several Imbankments already made'
Thomas Boydell’s impressive plan records the River Dee Company’s extensive navigation, embankment and land-reclamation works between Chester, Flint and Parkgate. Surveyed in 1770–71 and first published in 1772, it charts the engineered New Cut of the Dee, reclaimed marshland, numbered holdings, farms, sands and channels on both the Cheshire and Flintshire sides of the estuary. A magnificent allegorical cartouche combines shipping, industry, agriculture and river scenery, while statistical tables quantify lands recovered and enclosed; this later state incorporates additions through October 1837, documenting more than sixty years of continuing reclamation and company ownership. Large, scarce—there is only one recorded instituional holding of the map, in the National Library of Wales—and of major regional historical interest, the map survives linen-backed with fold lines and age-toning, but complete and visually commanding.
Size 59 x 90 cm | 23.0 x 35.5 inches
Date Published: 1772 (1837)
Type: Large-scale antique river-improvement, estate and reclamation plan, laid down on linen
Author: Boydell, Thomas
Publication: Lands & Premises belonging to the River Dee Company
Condition: Good |
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