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Land & Property information for Calverley and places above it in the hierarchy

Calverley

Yorkshire

  • Pat Johnson is providing a FREE lookup service of the names contained in her large collection of original Family Deeds. Most of them relate to property and financial transactions and may provide details which aren't available in the more usual sources of parish registers and Wills. Transcriptions of the full documents are available for a modest fee, and the original deeds may also be available for purchase if required. A list of Yorkshire places which are mentioned is provided onsite.
  • Deanna Fowler has kindly made available scans and transcriptions of 4 different land deeds from the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, 3 from Yorkshire and the other of unknown origin. The scans can be downloaded in two different sizes and the translations are given.
  • There are pages containing the definitions of territorial terms such as Riding, Wapentake, parish etc.
  • Originally posted to the Yorksgen mailing list, here are alphabetic lists of the Owners of Land in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1871.
  • The late David Simpson transcribed an indenture for the use of a Windmill at Pudsey. This is an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file.

England

UK and Ireland

  • For English and Welsh records see PRO Leaflet: Tithe Records in the National Archives. Scottish records are held at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh.
  • The University of Nottingham provides a detailed set of explanatory pages: Introduction to Deeds.
  • Legal Terms in Land Records is a useful glossary of obscure terms which occur in property deeds.
  • Robin Alston's Country House Database (archived copy) "represents a first attempt at listing country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them".
  • Estate Records held by Kings College, Cambridge.
  • Disused Railway Stations website - a large and growing set of photographs of closed stations, with brief details of each station and a map showing its location.
  • The Trace My House website provides extensive information and guidance for anyone wishing to investigate the history of a house and the people who lived in it.
  • TNA's Research Guide on Houses - "Records relating to the history of houses are kept in a variety of archives. This guide will help you to find out where the information you are looking for might be, and how to go about finding it."
  • British Listed Buildings - "an online database of buildings and structures that are listed as being of special architectural and historic interest".
  • Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles - a guide.