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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/UBOX/11
TitleBox 11 - County and Police Rates (Basis)
Date1816-1912
Description- “Annual value of rateable property in each township” Dec 1836. One volume for each Hundred: Appletree, High Peak Bakewell Division, High Peak High Peak Division, Morleston and Litchurch, Scarsdale, and Wirksworth
- Rate precepts, record of salary, and expenses payments for printing and advertising: in respect of funds for Reformatory Committee, Asylum, County Gaol, Lock-ups and election of county councillors: for each quarter Oct 1874-Jan 1889
- Schedules of property tax assessments, 1876 and 1880. Lists of parishes in each Hundred
- Questionnaires answered by officers of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire about property tax assessment and salaries of surveyors, Jul 1876
- Solicitor’s account, rate levy and copy writs in actions in relation to damage caused by rioters to the property of Jabez Gough, Arthur Harvey and James Hind Patten of Newhall on polling day 12 Feb 1874; and to the property of James Ragg on 5 Feb 1874
- Letter from county treasurer to Mr Marsden, Derby: county and police rates for Mansfield and Tamworth are still unpaid, 19 Mar 1874
- County Rate Assessment, listed by parish, for year 1852, 1854-1868, 1868-1872, 1875, 1877, 1880, 1881 1884, 1887 and two undated lists
- County Rate Basis: Explanatory Statement, 4 Aug 1911
- Letter from Pointon [?], Bakewell, to George Marsden about rate assessment, 31 Jul 1877. Folded inside are notes that appear to be comments about rate assessment in various parishes
- Property Tax Assessment, West Hallam, 1914. Lists individual properties with names of owners and occupiers
- Notebook, 1836. Notes of rating assessments in various parishes: also includes a commentary about colliery working “Presented by Col. T C Newbold, Derby, from his Grandfather’s papers, (June 1926)”
- Working papers, 1853 (1 file). Including schedule of rating calculations by parish
- Schedules of county rate for Morleston and Litchurch Hundred, 1876 and 1880
- Schedule: Assessment of those Parishes the boundaries of which were altered pursuant to the Local Govt Act 1894
- Booklets 'Basis of Standard of County Rate', 1887 and 1912
- Property Valuation Returns from individual parishes, 1876
- Circular letter from John Barber requesting to adopt the uniform scale of deductions, 6 Dec 1875. With replies form Ashby de la Zouch (25 Jan 1876) and Derby (7 Feb 1876) Unions
- Rating calculations relating to Littleover, Normanton, Markeaton, Litchurch and Little Eaton (areas taken from County of Derbyshire to Borough of Derby), ?1877
- Correspondence with Surveyors of Taxes about preparation of county rate basis, 1870s
- Notice of objection to proposed rate basis from Guardians of the Poor of the Glossop Union, 31 May 1876
- Report of committee appointed to prepare rate basis, 1876
- Minutes of committee appointed to prepare rate basis, Oct 1875-Sep 1877
- Circular from J W Newbold, Shardlow Union, to Overseers of the Poor requesting a new parish valuation list, 1 Feb 1876
- Instructions to Overseers, Ashbourne Union Assessment Committee, giving deductions to be used in valuation list preparation, undated
- Notice of Chesterfield Union Assessment Committee re requirement for preparation of a new valuation list, 30 Jan 1874; Circular about calculation of “gross estimated rental” for new valuation list, 3 Mar 1874
- Union Assessment Committees Instructions for calculation of rateable value: Chapel en le Frith, 23 May 1865; Basford, 5 Jan 1863; Shardlow, 3 Apr 1866
- Undated Note re Derby Union Assessment Committee scale of deductions
- Copy letter from Chesterfield Union Assessment Committee re proposed scale of tonnage prices in relation to assessment of collieries, 21 Sep 1875
- Booklet re present and proposed rate for each parish, 1877
- Objection to proposed county rate basis by Overseers of the Poor and ratepayers of Ashover, 1 Sep 1877. With seven signatures
- Objections/appeals to the new rate basis valuation, 1867 (from 41 parishes and Unions)
- Valuation list, Chatsworth, 25 Jul 1863
- Letter from Charles Binns, Coal, Lime and Ironworks, Clay Cross to John Barber, asks about frequency of rating re-evaluation in relation to the working out of mineral deposits, 31 Jan 1868
- Original newspaper extract from Derby and Chesterfield Reporter, 10 Apr 1868, pages 7 & 8
- County Rate, 1816. Arranged by parish, listed Hundred by Hundred
- List of Annual Values for Hundred of Appletree, listed parish by parish, 14 Jan 1817
- Property tax returns for the Hundred of Scarsdale, listed parish by parish, 1817
- County rate, amended return for Normanton, 30 Jul 1877
- Property tax return for township of Beighton, 4 Oct (year illegible)
- County rate return for Pleasley, 1880
- Notes about provisions/requirements of legislation in relation to County rate, undated
- List of Gross Estimated Rental for various large houses of the aristocracy, undated
- Valuation list for the parish of Croxall, undated
- List of occupiers and rateable value of various properties in Markeaton
- Schedule, being a comparison of County rate and Police rate, 16 Sep 1871
- Return of Sporting, Mines, Railways and Brickyards for various parishes, 1880s, including correspondence from Surveyor of Taxes, 1886
- List of overseers and collectors of Poor Rates, Chesterfield Union, 11 Oct 1880
- Objection to Rates Basis for Beard, Ollerset, Whitle and Thornset, 2 Sep 1880
- Various documents about rates for “Divided Parishes”, including letter dated 19 Feb 1881 from Local Government Board about County rate for the parish of Foxton and Scropton
- Document about rate basis for some parishes in the Belper Union, 1887
- Court brief re Borough of Burton upon Trent v Assessment Committee of the Burton upon Trent Union, 1888
- Court order appointing an arbitrator re Borough of Burton upon Trent v churchwardens of the parish of Egginton and Assessment Committee of the Burton upon Trent Union, 1888
- Objection to Rates Basis for Eccleshall Bierlow Union, 31 Aug 1880









Extent1 box
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
FormatDocument
AcknowledgementsBox-listed by volunteer Roger Jennens, December 2025.
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