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From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.

Surveys by John Whitcher • Roger's Bargain (1816) • Isle of Wight (1817) • Stoneham (1818) • Romsey (1819)

John Whitcher, a land surveyor from Liphook in Hampshire^[1], produced a series of surveys of the Fleming Estate as pocket books and large-scale folding plans, between 1816-1819. The pocket books contain estate maps and plans, with an accompanying terrier listing the lands and property.

The Surveys

• Survey of Roger's Bargain and North Stoneham Poor House, 1816
• Survey of the Estates on the Isle of Wight, 1817
• Surveys of Stoneham, 1818
• Survey of the Estates at Romsey, 1819

Selected images

Swaythling Farm from Surveys of Stoneham, 1818

Lusborough Farm from Survey of the Estates at Romsey, 1819

Arreton from Survey of the Estates on the Isle of Wight, 1817

Detail of Survey of Roger's Bargain and North Stoneham Poor House, 1816

References and notes

1. ↑ Other surveys by Whitcher for other estates include: 'A Map of Waldergrove Farm the property of Mr. Thos. Bridger' (1813), West Sussex Record Office Add Mss 9910; 'Survey of Lands the property of Thos Peckham Phipps Esq of Little Green, Sussex' (1818), West Sussex Record Office Add Mss 29,678; 'Plan of the boundary of Bohunt Manor adjoining the Forest from Cornford River to Liss Manor' (n.d.), National Archives F 17/390.