A print of this image is in the RCHME Inventory Notes for Milton Abbas, General, Dorset III. This image is printed in the RCHME Inventory Volume, County of Dorset, Volume Three Central, Part 2. The plan was drawn by Willam Woodward in 1769-1771. In 1780 Joseph Damer demolished the town to make room for a park designed by Lancelot Brown. The inhabitants of the old town were transferred to a model village about half a mile away.
This is part of the Sub-Series: RCH01/096/02 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Iii, Central: Small Format Negatives; within the Series: RCH01/096 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Iii, Central; within the Sub-Collection: RCH01/01 Rchme Inventory Volumes; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive
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