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D503 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and subsidiaries - 1675-20th cent
1 - Title deeds - 1675-1973
2A
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D503/1/2A/1
Former Reference
D503/B/M/1/2A/12; D503/B/M/1/2A/24
Title
Bundle of deeds relating to Denby Stoneford
Date
1726-1815
Description
Abstract of 99 yr, lease by Thomas Roby of Derby Park and trustees to John Fletcher of Stainsby House Horsley of coal in Robey's land at Denby - with leave to enter to sink pits, stack or coke/lime, make bricks, erect engines, dismantle, drain etc, rents reserved 2/- per slack of hard coal then laid dry, 1/- per stack of hard coal afterwards, 6d, per stack of soft coals which required to be laid dry before gotton. Measures of stacks according to the custom of the county - covenants for measuring, reinstating land etc Dated 18 Apr 1726;
Copy counterpart lease for 25 years by George Woolley of Ripley to Thomas Fletcher of Codnor and Robert Wood of Swanwick of all and singular the mines, veins, beds and delphs of hard and soft coal situate and lying within and under certain closes at Stoneyford near Codnor Park, containing 29 acres - liberty to sink and make sharft, erect engines, whimseys and gins and make carriage roads and rail roads, to erect dwelling houses for workmen etc. etc Rents £120 per acre of hard coal and £60 per acre of soft coal, 10 Apr 1815
Extent
1 bundle
Level
File
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers
Format
Document
Term
Deeds
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