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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3410/1
Title“Stearndale Field Rate” volume
Date[early 19th cent]
Description[Earl] Sterndale rate book, comprising a series of entries consisting of 2 names (occupier and owner) followed by field names or other description of property with numbers, acreages and sums of money - two sums for each property. On p 66 are notes in a different hand of total acreage, value of land, houses, lot and cope [payments relating to lead right] and railways Following p 66 is a section headed ‘Collected Rate and Index’, consisting of a list of occupiers and proprietors with columns for page numbers (referring to the main section of the volume) “Items”, (often blank, or recording sums of money) and rate. At the end of the book is an account of the measurement of the railroad in Hartington Middle Quarter, giving names of persons, acreages and rates but few references to properties, and on the last page the quantity of freehold land in Under Hill farm [in Earl Sterndale] giving field names and acreages. The book is not dated, but apparently early 19th cent
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RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorParish of Earl Sterndale St Michael and All Angels
Administrative HistoryRecords of the dissenting church at Marple Bridge originally at Mill Brow where the first chapel was built in 1715 near the barn at Pear Tree Farm where earlier meetings had been held. In 1787 the chapel moved to Town Street, Marple Bridge and then in 1887 to a new chapel in Hollins Lane.
Custodial HistoryThese records were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in August 1990
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