A hand-drawn map showing the land ownership in Dringhouses. Names of owners/renters of the land are listed in their plot along with measuremnts of the land owned/rented. The map is drawn on parchment and has buildings represented by a drawning.

A small section of the map showing the difference between enclosed land and land still farmed as strips. The land farmed as strips shows lots of names listed in a small space, where as enclosed land has one name over a larger portion of land.

A zoomed in section of the map showing the handwriting on the map.

A zoomed in section showning the village of Dringhouses. It shows the land ownsership as well as the buildings and dwellings of Dringhouses at the time.

Our #PopularItem is our map of 'The Plott of the Mannor of Dringhouses Lyinge within the Countie of the Citie of Yorke.', hand-drawn by Samual Parsons (1624-29). 

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