The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors is one of the

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of the

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. The organisation was granted

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in May 1977 and a Royal Charter 13 June 2013. The Company promotes surveying by awarding scholarships. The Company ranks eighty-fifth in the

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for Livery Companies. Its motto is ''Modus ab initio'', which is Latin for "Method from the very beginning" and its church is

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The landscape painter Richard Howard Penton's drawings in ''Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London'' were re-published in 1981 to mark their grant of livery status. The Company does not have its own

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and meets and dines in a selection of the 35 different livery halls in

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Surveyors Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...

Organizations established in 1977 Trade associations based in the United Kingdom Chartered Surveyors 1977 establishments in England Surveying organizations Charities based in London

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