Title:
'The Mannor of Henny Magna ... percell of the Possessions of Roger Gwin of London gent. ... Wus Sands descripsit'.
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
MANORIAL RECORDS AND DEEDS OF GREAT HENNY
Level: Series
Manor of Great Henny
Scope and Content:
Scale of 13.3 inches to 1 mile.

Map of about 1500 acres in Great Henny (including former detached parts) and south of Bulmer, with small areas in south of Middleton, south of Little Henny, north-west of Twinstead, north of Lamarsh and between Edwardstone and Groton, Suffolk. Shows field-names; names of owners and of some adjacent owners; woodland; strips in open fields and common meadows ('the pricked lines signifie baulkes'); Bulmer Tye, Twinstead Tye and 'Cadly Cross'; and wayside cross called Potter Cross. Buildings, including Great Henny, Twinstead and Lamarsh churches, Lamarsh and Great Henny rectories, [? Auberies], manor of Borehouse, Suffolk, Henny watermill and 'Loshes' watermill (on a tributary of the Stour), drawn in perspective view. Distinguishes by colour the boundary of the manor of Great Henny, demesne, freehold, copyhold, lands of the 'newe feofment', lands of other manors 'lienge intermixte', greens and glebe. Compass rose; scale bar ('scala vigint quatuor'); cartouche, resembling the work of the school of Norden.
Dates of Creation:
1600
Extent:
1
Creator Name:
William Sands
Custodial History:
Formerly catalogued as D/DBm P1.
Access:
Permanently withdrawn by depositor, January 1965.
Language
English.
Physical Characteristics:
35 x 50 inches; irregular shape.
Existence of Copies:
For a black-and-white photograph, slightly reduced in scale, see Ph 3/10A. A further photograph from the same negative, very much reduced, is available in Estate Map Binder 1 in the Essex Record Office searchroom.
Related Unit of Description:
Table refers to 'survaie booke' (D/DU 332/1). The map and the survey are discussed in Edward Martin and Max Satchell, Wheare most inclosures be. East Anglian fields: history, morphology and management (East Anglian Archaeology 124, 2008), pp. 124-130.
Publication Notes:
A small section, illustrating the open field system, reproduced in black-and-white in booklet Elizabethan Essex (Essex Record Office 1961), plate 3. The whole map reproduced in black-and-white in Martin and Satchell (2008), p. 125.
Not Available:
Permanently withdrawn by depositor

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Personal Names Roger
Gwin 		gentleman, London, 1600
Personal Names William
Sands 		surveyor, Great Henny, 1600
Place Names Bulmer Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Great Henny Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Lamarsh Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Little Henny Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Middleton Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Suffolk, Edwardstone Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Suffolk, Groton Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Place Names Twinstead Map of manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Document Types Manorial records Manor of Great Henny: map, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Document Types Manuscript map Manor of Great Henny, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)
Institutions Manor of Great Henny Map, 1600 (withdrawn, 1965)