This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Search
Search Constraints
You searched for:Collection AreaMap CollectionsLanguageEnglish
Two maps of part of northern Chihli (直隸) Province, by Lt Colonel A.W.S. Wingate, Havildar Gurmuckh Singh, and Sepoy Hussain Khan
Scope & Content:
The maps cover an area to the south of Jehol (熱河), south-west to Shih-hsia (石匣) and south east to Chuang-t'ou-ying-tzu (庄頭營子), showing hydrology, relief, and numbered settlements. Each map is accompanied by name lists providing a key to the numbered settlements with chinese characters and romanis...
Sheet No. 1st F[ro]m Lo Ho Kou [unidentified] to Jê Ho K'ou [熱河口] via Shing Ko Tun [unidentified] and Lan P'ing Hsien [灤平縣]. Survey by Hussein Khan 30th Punjabis October 1904
'Hsi-ling (Western Tombs) [西陵] to Ta-tung Fu [大同府] via Yu Chou [蔚州] and back via Hsüan-hua Fu [宣化府]'. 'Surveyed by Havildar Amar Singh, 4th S[ikh] I[nfantry]
Scope & Content:
The sheets cover a route in western Chihli [直隸] and north-eastern Shansi [山西] provinces. Shows hydrology, relief, and numbered settlements to a distance of up to 2 miles either side of the route. Place-names in Wade-Giles romanisation have been added in pencil for some settlements. Numbered 1-14....
'Route sketches from Wu-te-kou [unidentified] to Erh-tao-ho [二道河] and Yu Chow [蔚州] to Ta-tung Fu [大同府]. Lt. Williams, 2nd R. Welsh Fus. & Havr. Amar Singh' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
The file documents 2 routes in western Chihli [直隸] and north-eastern Shansi [山西] provinces. Part of the latter area has since been transferred to Inner Mongolia [内蒙古].