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A plan of Crookes Moor in the parish of Sheffield, drawn by W. Fairbank

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A plan of Crookes Moor in the parish of Sheffield, drawn by W. Fairbank
Sheffield_Crookesmoor
1780
1500-1799

All the lands adjoining to Crooks Moor which are coloured red are said to be in the township of Nether Hallam, ... those coloured green which adjoin in like manner are said to be  in the township of Ecclesall ... a small part of the township of Upper Hallam ... is coloured purple ...

All the cottages which pay rent to the Earl of Surrey are coloured red, those which pay rent to the Marquis of Rockingham are coloured green.

Shows Sheffield Charity School land, Matthew Castleton’s an encroachment, [land] allotted to the Duke of Norfolk, road from [?Smith] Wood, Worrall’s land, garden enclosed n the tenant to the heirs of W. Jessop, esquire, lands belonging to the heirs of W. Jessop [William Jessop], esquire, pond, ‘this part of the common was awardee d to the township of Ecclesall by Fairfax Fearnley esquire, causey, Tapton Mill Farm, Tapton Hill Road, Wilson’s cottage, old road from Fulwood, race course [and] stand, Town Field, quarries, Wm Spooner’s land, old coal pit, pipe conveying water to Broomhall, Josh, Owen’s Intake, J. Owens cottage, Benjamin Withers’s Cottage, James Spooner’s garden, well, The Earl of Surrey’s lans, old clay pits, road to Crooks, road to Steel Bank, etc., Lidget Lane [Lydgate Lane], Wm Dean’s cottage, Gibbet Hill, James Langley’s lands, J. Langley’s cottage, Broad Lane, Swineherd Hill, Eliz. Waterhouses land, gannister quarries, Isaac Slack’s land, Mean Close, - Parker’s [land], John Hoyland’s land, Stephen Wilson’s cottages, Josh. Matthewman, Josh. Green, dams from which the town of Sheffield is supplied with water, road from Sheffield to Upperthorpe, James Taylor’s cottage, Steel Bank, John Barber’s cottage,

Original at Sheffield City Archives: WC/1764.

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