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==Maps==

The map (and schedule) held by the commissioners passed to the [[Inland Revenue]] and these are now held in the [[The National Archives]] at Kew<ref>Foot, p.20</ref> (classes IR29 and IR30). Although the maps do not always survive, the local copy is now usualyusually held in the county record office. Prior to the publication of large scale [[Ordnance Survey]] maps in the late nineteenth century, tithe maps were frequently copied (in whole or part) for other purposes - for example to accompany planned railways or as part of the title deeds for a sale. For many parishes they provide the only large scale map showing the landscape prior to the [[industrial revolution]]<ref>Harley, p.35</ref> and they frequently provide the earliest evidence for the [[field system]] in the parish.

==References==

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==Further Readingreading==

*William Foot, ''Maps for Family History'' (Public Record Office Readers Guide No 9, PRO Publications, 1994)

*J B Harley, ''Maps for the local historian'' (Blackfriars Press, reprinted 1977)