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A plan of the Duke of Norfolk's Allotments on Grenno Moor describing the present divisions

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A plan of the Duke of Norfolk's Allotments on Grenno Moor describing the present divisions
Sheffield Ecclesfield
1793
1500-1799

Scale 2 chains : 1 inch [40 inches : 1 mile].

Surveyor: William Fairbank II.

Includes part of the village of Grenoside; numerical list with tenants and measurements; notes on sales added later (1809); other allotments and exchanges.

Marked on the plan: the widow Ashmore's land, Henry Iberson's allotment,  John Allen's allotment, Duke of Norfolk's land, Hawke and Ronkesley's land, cottage, road from Penistone, Jacob Houseley, Matthias Houseley, cottages of Joseph Houseley, John Hobson, John Tingle, Richard Beet and Matthias Houseley, Matthew Ellinson, School Croft, George Thompson, school land, Joseph Hunt, Hannah Tingle's cottage, James Dixons allotment, Joseph Hawley, Thomas Walker, stone quarry, aalotment awarded to James Dixon clerk as vicar of Ecclesfield, Samuel Stevenson, turnpike roaf road to Sheffield, Josiah Ashton, H Wilson, George Booth,

References to the several allotments as they were subdivided in 1793: 1 held by Joseph Oates, 2 – 3 Benjamin Allott, 4 part held by Benjamin Allott [and] – Jackson, 5 John Hobson, 6 Josiah Ashton, 7 Joseph Oates, 8 John Ashton, 8a Joseph Bailey, 9 - 10 Stephen Jackson, 11 – 11a late Samuel Walker and Brothers, 12 part not yet inclosed, 13 Matthias Houseley, 14 part not yet inclosed, 15 George Ellison, 16 Robert Bradwell, Dud Parkin, and John Wilson, 17 Thomas Higgins, 18 Joseph Housley, 19 Joshua Walker, 20 Ann Tingle, 21 Hannah Tingle, 22 George Booth, quarry, 23 - 24 Joseph Smith, 25 Widow Moore, 26 Joseph Smith.

Dimensions approx. 74 x 68 cm.

Original at Sheffield City Archives: ACM/MAPS/16/20 (altrefno ACM/MAPS/Ecc/228L)

Digitised with financial support from Sheffield and District Family History Society in memory of Professor David Hey (1938-2016) founder and life president of the Society.

 

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