Theodolite readings; books at Wigfair, etc.,
- NLW MS 12461A.
- File
- [18 cent., last ΒΌ].
Part of Wigfair manuscripts
A notebook containing the results of readings made with a theodolite from various points in North Wales including Clogwyn y Garnedd, Carn Cwn [sic] Gafr, the tower of the cathedral church at St. Asaph, Moelfra Ucha and Moelfodiar, 1778-1793; measurements, from stage to stage, of the distances between Mold and Denbigh (by six different routes), Mold and Chester, Denbigh and Northop, Denbigh and St. Asaph (by two different routes), St. Asaph and Rudland, Rhydland and Vorryd, Denbigh Cross and Tal y Cafn (by two different routes), Denbigh Cross and Conway, and Wrexham and Ruthyn; a list of 'the Stations and the Principal objects made use of in the prosecution of the Survey of North Wales and a part of the adjoining Counties'; and a 'Catalog of Books at Wickwer' containing the titles, etc., of forty-one works published between 1480 and 1639.