| Administrative History | Originally there were four valuation offices covering Derbyshire: Chesterfield, Derby, High Peak and Matlock. The High Peak area at one time also covered parts of Cheshire (now in Greater Manchester) but by the time these records were acquired in 1979 this had been split up and the Derbyshire section amalgamated with Matlock in a West Derbyshire area. In 1979, the jurisdiction of each area was as follows:
- Chesterfield Valuation Office covered the areas of the following local authorities: Chesterfield Borough Council, North East Derbyshire District Council, Bolsover District Council
- Derby Valuation Office covered the areas of the following local authorities: Derby City Council, Erewash Borough Council, South Derbyshire District Council
- West Derbyshire Valuation Office covered the areas of the following local authorities: High Peak Borough Council, West Derbyshire District Council, Amber Valley District Council
Duties on land values, 1910
Four series of documents were created for or by the Board of Inland Revenue valuation offices as a result of the provisions of the Finance (1909-1910) Act of 1910 concerning duties on land values:
- The field book
- The terrier map
- The valuation precis (or "Domesday Book")
- The "form 37 land"
In addition to the above, the valuation offices created working sheet maps. These were produced at an intermediate stage, and the information from them was then transferred to the terrier maps.
The terrier maps and the field books have all been retained by the National Archives for permanent preservation and are held at Kew (reference IR 58).
This collection, held at Derbyshire Record Office, is largely made up of the Domesday books and the working sheet maps. The collection does include some of the "forms 37 land", but these have only been retained in cases where the Domesday book does not survive or is held elsewhere.
The Domesday book was prepared by the Inspector of Taxes. It contained entries for each hereditament, giving basic information for the valuation of the property - the valuation assessment number, map reference, owner, occupier, situation, description, and extent. In cases where there are unexplained gaps in the hereditament numbers, this has been caused by the numbers having been pre-selected, regardless of the actual quantity required.
The field books were prepared by the valuation offices, and contain all the information found in the precis with additional detailed descriptions of the premises. The "forms 37 land" contain information extracted from the Domesday book, arranged in a different format. The terrier maps are at a scale of 25 inches to the mile, based on Ordnance Survey maps (usually the c1910 edition) and are marked up with each hereditament number. |
| Custodial History | The working sheet maps were presented to local record offices in January 1968 and collected from each valuation office. The Domesday books were presented in December 1979 and were collected from the National Archives (then the Public Record Office). Further volumes came via the Lancashire Record Office in August 1982. "Forms 37 land" were collected from each valuation office in November 1979. |