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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D7676/BagC/664
TitlePapers and notes, questions for witnesses etc. relating to a dispute over the boundary of the commons between Eyam and Stoney Middleton
Datec 1780
DescriptionIncluding a plan of the disputed area

These documents include maps described in the Derbyshire Record Society's "A Catalogue of Local Maps of Derbyshire c.1528–1800" (compiled by Harold Nichols, revised by Mary Wiltshire assisted by Susan Woore, published 2012). The description reads as follows:

This plan is Drawn Representing the Great Old Vein commonly call'd Hucklow Rake Workt and brought through Huklow and Grindlow Liberty etc. Scale: of half a meer [1:185] with dividers in 8 equal parts. Size: 86 x 19 cm. Materials: sepia ink on paper. Centred on: SK1877 Notes: compass rose, NNE at top. Carefully plotted lead vein plan with engines and shafts: endorsed 'Map of Eyam Edge Mines agreeable to the Plan of Miners Engine Partners viz Richard Bagshaw etc.'. Location: DRO, D7676/BagC/664

[No title. Map and briefs in dispute over inclosure of common land. n.d.18c]. Size: 32 x 40 cm. Materials: sepia ink and colour on water marked paper. Centred on: SK2075 Notes: no orientation, north-west at top. Shows area between Housley and Black Harry Gate with Castle Gate, 'Thunder Pits' a 'double ditch', lime kiln, 'wall erected by plaintiff' in red, houses in Foolow in stylised elevation. Location: DRO, D7676/BagC/664-1
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorBagshawe family of Foolow
Archivist NoteRespaced
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