Thornsett Turnpike: Box 1 The following text summarises the content of the box. Documents are bundled, but the contents of each bundle are not sorted by theme, date or type of document. Financial documents: Manuscript notes: 1864: various details, including list of annual totals of toll receipts, 1833-1863 Stamped receipts: 1877-1878: 13 items: payments made by the treasurer Receipt: 1851: Dennis Rangeley, surveyor: salary Quotation: 1862: painting of buildings: George Alsop Receipts: 1846-1863; interest payments to subscribers Accounts: 1854, 1856, 1862 & 1876: payments made by the clerk Invoices: 1845-1874: purchase of limestone, fencing posts, paint, ironmongery; maintenance and repair of toll houses and gates; printing of toll tickets; repair of clothing; meals and refreshments at Ram's Head Inn, Disley Itemised accounts: 1854 & 1856: legal work completed by Edward Reddish: including work relating to proposed Disley and Hayfield Railway Account: 1853: work by Dennis Rangeley, surveyor Rent account: Mr Adamson: cottage and barn at Jumble, Hayfield: entries 1871-1873 Account: 1839: fees payable to Magistrates' clerk for making an order for road repair Account: 1840: court case legal work: William Bennett Annual statement of accounts: 1833-1835, 1836; 1843-1845 Estimate of expenditure: 1835: completion and maintenance of Thornsett Turnpike Income and expenditure account: 1833: James Worrall Letter: 1879: from George H Thorne, Wolverhampton, to H Lathom: to accompany taxation voucher Receipts: 1877-1879: payments to New Mills Local Board and others Receipts: 1867-1876: payments to Disley Township Letter: 1877: from Thomas Royle, waywarden: money due to Disley Township Plans: 1886: Oven Hill Toll Bar, Birch Vale: scale: 50 feet to one inch: 2 copies: 30cm x 44cm and 23cm x 44cm Toll Bar collectors' records: 1841-1842: daily lists of monetary amounts and names: presumably tolls paid: Potters Hey Bar: 24 notebooks; Marsh Lane Bar: 5 notebooks; High Hill Bar: 5 loose sheets; Oven Hill Bar: printed proforma (18 items) with daily summarised entries Accounts showing receipts from each toll house: 6 items Toll Bar collectors' records: 1842-1843: daily lists of monetary amounts and names: presumably tolls paid: Marsh Lane Bar: 4 notebooks; Potters Hey Bar: 7 notebooks Unidentified bar: loose sheets showing total receipts High Hill Bar: loose sheets with daily entries; Oven Hill bar: loose printed sheets Toll Collectors' Returns: 1847: appear to be daily records of tolls paid at each toll bar: notebooks appear to have taken apart and systematically re-arranged into a single chronological sequence Letters: 1835: from J K Winterbottom to Mr Adamson: 1836: from J K Winterbottom to Dennis Rangeley 1837: from James Meadows, Peak Forest Canal, to J K Winterbottom 1854 & 1862: from John White, Park Hall: news of friends and family including Thomas and Matilda 1841-1870: various letters relating to the finances and operations of the Turnpke Trust: correspondents include in particular: Ebenezer Adamson of Hayfield and Glasgow (treasurer); John Adamson, (clerk, Salford Union and son of Ebenezer Adamson); Edward Reddish, father and son, of Stockport, successive clerks); John White of Park Hall (chairman); John Greenwood of Pendleton (toll contractor); John Taylor of Ollersett, (agent) 1850: from Edward Reddish: reports death of his father; wishes to apply for the clerkship of the Turnpike Trust Manuscript: undated, (refers to 1853): copy of national financial statistics: "Turnpike Trusts in England" Documents relating to alleged failure to repair the Disley to Hayfield road: 1879: Cheshire Quarter Sessions: Copy writ Associated correspondence from Clerk of the Peace's office, Chester Copy of consent to a plea being entered Notice of advice by W C Glen Brief for the prosecution Certificate of finding of Bill of Indictment against New Mills Local Board Writ: High Court Queens Bench Division: New Mills Local Board and William Rayner, Turnpike Trustee Brief for the prosecution, legal opinion by Edmund Swetenham and related correspondence: 1879: Knutsford Midsummer Quarter Sessions: dispute about road repairs: New Mills Local Board. Documents relating to New Mills/Goyt bridge: Account: 1865: bridge repairs: Samuel Howard Correspondence: 1873, 1877-1879 Further case for legal opinion: 1878: with opinion by J H P Leresche Manuscript copies of 1878 newspaper reports: proceedings of New Mills Local Board: in relation to Goyt Bridge Extracts from Stockport and Hyde Highway Board Minute Books: 1864-1866 and 1875 Receipt: 1879: payment to S Howard: court attendance and photograph expenses Report: 1878: by Samuel Howard: condition of Beard Terrace Bridge Documents relating to High Court Queens Bench case: The Queen v White: a dispute about paying for road repair in the hamlet of Beard: Court order: 1842/43 Related correspondence: 1840-1843, particularly from Bower & Black, solicitors, London Case and appeal statement: 1842 Judgement: undated Legal opinion: 1841: H H Griffin Legal opinion: 1841: Charles W Wood Argument: (verbatim transcription of court judgement) Account: 1842: J Charge: for copying and delivering related documents Conditions for Letting the Tolls: 1863 and undated draft Surveyor's report: 1843: state of Thornsett road: Dennis Rangeley Agreement: 1833: no toll gate to be installed west of Red Mill: Thomas Grimditch and Richard Wright Notices of proposed railways: 1845: Whaley Bridge and Hayfield Railway Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway Draft mortgage deed: 1855: William Collier Vaudrey Minutes: undated: annual general meting Brief for the prosecution: 1840: Knutsford Midsummer Quarter Sessions: John Billingham v. Township of Disley: dispute about payment for road repairs Brief for the respondents: 1840: Derbyshire Sessions: dispute about payment for road repairs Parliamentary Bills: 1865: Stockport, Disley & Whaley Bridge Railway; and Cromford & High Peak Railway Gradient plan: 1854: marked Stockport, Disley & Whaley Bridge Railway: turnpike road at 7 miles 4 furlongs: 23cm x 19cm: scale 5 chains to one inch Notices: 1872 and 1875: from Local Government Board: establishment of boundaries of New Mills District Original newspapers: North Cheshire Herald: 19 July, 26 July & 2 August 1879 Glossop Dale Chronicle: 17 August 1878 Cheshire County News: 15 March, 22 March, 24 May & 2 August 1878 Ashton Reporter: 19 July 1879 Printed notices: undated: 22 items: amount of tolls Newspaper fragments: 1840: notice of annual general meeting, and sale of land and premises in parish of Glossop Letters to/from William Marriott [William Marriott ca 1779-1839 was curate at Disley from 1805: these letters show no evident connection to the Thornsett Turnpike Trust.] 1830: to Robert Ladbury: receiver of rents at Disley: claims income owing to Disley 1831: to Thomas Leigh: history of Disley Chapel and assertion that there is money owing to the incumbent 183?: from R Ladbury, Lyme Park: no income being withheld by Mr Leigh 1833: from George William Newton, Aspinshaw: seeks information about Thorneycroft family: with newspaper advertisement seeking heirs of Ann Thorneycroft of Thorneycroft Hall 1833: to William Hancock, chapel warden, Disley: Thorneycroft family 1833: from Oswald Marriott (son): family news; invitation to visit: on reverse: printed text promoting Oswald Marriott's school at Crosby Sea Bank 1827: from Charles Tucker, clerk to the [Charity] Commissioners: not yet investigating within the county of Chester 1831: from [signature not legible]: seeks proof of claim 1833: from William Tatton Egerton: acknowledges letter: hopes for a Bill in the House of Commons 19th-20th cent