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D2711 - Clients of Lymn and Cotman of Matlock, solicitors - 1860-1972
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D2711/BOX/2
Title	Lymn and Cotman, solicitors: box 2
Date	c1920s-1930
Description	Most items in this box concern the sale of the Willersley Castle Estate by Richard Alleyne Arkwright following the death in 1923 of his father Frederick Charles Arkwright. As well as Willersley Castle the estate included many properties in the village of Cromford. The sales particulars thus contain detailed information about properties and tenants comparable with what might be found in a street directory. Before the sale the Willersley Castle Estate incurred a tithe rent charge not apportioned between individual properties: this box contains documents relating to the subsequent apportionment of tithe rent charges Box file with alphabetical divisions: Willersley Estate sale: 1924: invoices for legal charges and receipts for deeds and other documents relating to sale of individual properties Ledger marked " Cromford Estate Rental": entries 1924-1927: tenants' names, premises, rent due and rent paid: folded inside: income and expenditure accounts; 1926-1927: Willersley Estate; letters: 1926-1928 from R A Arkwright: rental details and outstanding property sales: including refusal of permission for the Wesleyans to hold a garden party at Willersley Castle before conclusion of purchase; sale brochure: 1924: lots unsold after auction of March 1924, with associated correspondence about rent collection Correspondence: 1927: Matlock and Cromford Angling Association: fishing rights: one letterhead includes an image of The Fishing Hut, Cromford Bridge Sales particulars: 1924: (copies of several versions): Willersley Castle Estate: one copy contains 8 monochrome photographic images: 8cm x 6cm: Rock House, Oak Farm, Cromford Market Place (2 views), Greyhound Hotel, Troy Laundry, Cromford Cotton Mills (2 views): and plan: Cromford: 53cm x 75cm: scale: 1: 1600 Tithe rent charge documents: receipts: 1929-1930: Willersley Castle Estate booklet: 1927: tithe rent charge tables by Percy William Millard; and summary of Tithe Acts 1836-1925 folder of letters and copy letters: 1932-1933: Willersley Castle Estate tithe payments folder: contains loose pages from an appointment diary 1929: containing notes relating to property administration: possibly tithe payments schedule: apportionment of tithe rent charges for each property privately sold to tenants in 1924 application form: undated: altered apportionment of rent charge (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries): no entries schedule: undated: Benefice of Matlock: list of commuted tithes correspondence: tithe rent charge: 1926-1931: principal correspondents: Smiths, Gore & Co, Chester and Messrs Starkie & Lewis, Long Eaton Schedules: property sales, lists of purchasers and purchase price: Willersley Castle Estate Abstract of Title: 1929: Willersley Castle Estate Conditions of Sale: 1924: individual documents: properties at Thornside, Cromford; Barnwell Lane, Cromford; Steeple Grange; 84 Cromford Hill; Water Lane, Cromford; 89 Cromford Hill; Moorside, Cromford Income tax assessment: 1931: addressed to British Legion Committee: with reference to Guild Room, Cromford Original copy: The Solicitors' Journal: 30 August 1930 The following items have no apparent connection with the Willersley Castle Estate: Abstract of Title: 1925: (1 copy, plus draft) property in Hopton, Carsington, Middleton, Callow, Brassington, Wirksworth and Ible: related to the will of Henry Chandos Pole Gell, (died 1902) Abstract of Title, and draft: 1925: property at Carsington
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Clients of Lymn and Cotman of Matlock, solicitors
Appraisal	17 duplicates of the 1925 Abstract of Title for property in Hopton, Carsington, Middleton, Callow, Brassington, Wirksworth and Ible were disposed of 03/05/2024, BS.

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