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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/UBOX/14
TitleBox 14 - Rates/Bases
Date1816-1887
DescriptionBundle 1
- Act of Parliament re Assessment and Collection of County Rates in England and Wales, 1852
- Committee (for rating revision) notices to churchwardens, overseers of the poor and constables, 1833, 1847, 1852 and 1853
- Abstracts from present County Rate and from Returns to Precepts for new County Rate, 1833 (listed by parish in separate document for each Hundred)
- Schedules of County Rate, 1848 (listed by parish Hundred by Hundred)
- Schedules for Proposed County Rate Basis, 1867, 1868, 1874 and 1877
- Comparative Statement of rateable value for Poor Rate and County Rate of each parish

Bundle 2
- Returns of gross estimated rental and rateable value for each parish listed Hundred by Hundred, 1864-1887

Loose items
- Pamphlet re Reasons for Revision of the Rate, 1832. E C Chandos Pole refers to rejection of author’s proposal “at last Michaelmas Sessions" with critical handwritten annotations and underlining [Further copy at D369/G/Zpe/97]
- Letter from A L Maynard to William Jeffrey Lockett about collection of rates, 11 Nov 1816, with a copy of circular letter to property tax collectors in Lancashire
- Report of committee (revision of rate basis), 1833
- Extracts from minutes, 1831-1834 (particularly relating to contributions of E C Chandos Pole)
- List of townships having made returns under Schedule A, with monetary amounts, for Hundred of Wirksworth, signed by John Langford. Undated
- Schedule dated 1833, giving comparison of valuation made in 1816 and proposed valuation. With valuations for each Hundred
- Working documents, undated: excerpts from legislation; valuation lists for some parishes in each Hundred; comparison of valuations in 1816 and 1836 for each Hundred; proposes Alkmonton, Shottle, Linton and Derby Hills as a standard of fair proportionate value; comparisons of high and low rated parishes; and a list of parishes where separate valuations of buildings and mines should be ascertained
- Extracts from minutes, 1832-1836, re about making a new County Rate
- Returns from collectors of property tax for parishes in Hundred of High Peak
- Schedule of present and proposed valuations for each parish listed Hundred by Hundred. Undated (but some entries indicate number of houses in 1821)
- Report of Justices for Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, 1816, giving annual value of estates and properties in each parish
- Circular letter from Local Government Board to Assessment Committees re implementation of The Rating Act 1874, 24 Nov 1874
- Minutes for Quarter Sessions, 16 Oct 1832

Property Tax returns, 1816 (6 bundles)
Listed parish by parish each Hundred: Appletree, Morleston and Litchurch, Repton and Gresley, Scarsdale, Wirksworth
Extent1 box
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
FormatDocument
AcknowledgementsBox-listed by volunteer Roger Jennens, January 2026.
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