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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2711/BOX/3
TitleLymn and Cotman, solicitors: box 3
Datec1920s-1972
DescriptionMost 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. 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

Tithe rent charge documents:

Correspondence: 1926-1934: correspondents include: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; W K Marshall, Derby; H J Wigram & Co; Smiths, Gore & Co, Chester
Schedule: undated: apportionment of tithe rent charges for property sold to tenants
Invoice forms: (19 copies): 1931: tithe collection: no entries
Letters: 1925-1930: tithe rent charge: correspondents include Knight Frank & Rutley, London and Williams & James, London

Return form for assessment of rateable property: 1934: The Matlocks Urban District: refers to fishing rights: no entries

Sale particulars: 1927: Willersley Cottage Farm: with estate plan including Matlock Bath and Cromford: 57cm x 57cm: scale: 1 cm to 0.05 km

Abstract of Title: 1924: Arkwright property at Willersley, Mellor and Marple

Abstract of Title: 1926: Arkwright property at Willersley

Income tax assessments: 1933 and 1941: British Legion: Guild Room, Cromford

Draft sales particulars: 1927: Willersley Castle and adjacent properties

Folders (2): 1927: Willersley Castle Estate sale: "Correspondence subsequent to sale"

Sales particulars: (3 copies): Willersley Castle Estate

Draft conditions of sale (3 copies)

Conditions of sale: individual documents relating to cottages at the following Cromford locations: Masons Opening, Bedehouse Lane, Scarthin and Porters Lane near Middleton: and to Cromford Mills, which includes a statutory declaration: 1924: by William Barker, agent to the Willersley Estate, about Arkwright possession of Cromford Mills

Purchase agreements: 1924: William Henry Vincent, Frederick William Pinson, Ernest Buckley, Charlotte Jane Chapman, J Wilson, James Austin

Purchase offers and acceptances: 1924: by the following tenants: Job Hodgkinson, J Sellers, F W Slater, S Bradshaw

Schedule of tenants purchasing property: written in a sales particulars copy; and agreement on their behalf by Hannah Butland

Conditions of sale: 1924: 20 copies (no details completed)


The following items have no apparent connection with the Willersley Castle Estate:

Abstract of Title, and draft: 1925: property at Carsington

Abstract of Title: 1925: three cottages at Carsington

Abstract of Title: 1925: (3 copies) property in Hopton, Carsington, Middleton, Callow, Brassington, Wirksworth and Ible: related to the will of Henry Chandos Pole Gell, (died 1902)

Investment prospectus booklet: 1972: Surinvest Future Income Fund

Photocopy: undated: reverse image of map of Bonsall: 19cm x 24cm
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorClients of Lymn and Cotman of Matlock, solicitors
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