| Description | First Edition, published for circulation amongst tenants only. "Contract Book No 1" on front cover.
The estate is described as containing 1,561 acres chiefly in Aston, but also in Shardlow and Chellaston and "near Weston". It included Cottage Farm 76 acres, Manor Farm 54 acres, Bird's Nest Farm 40 acres, Glebe Farm, Shardlow, 85 acres, Alderslade House 16 acres, "Glebe Mine" or "California Mine" in Chellaston including plaster mill, engine house, office, house and cottage, in the occupation of the Gotham Co Ltd under a lease which includes right of mining under specified lands (the mill and mining equipment is described in some detail), Rectory Farm 149 acres, right of mining gypsum, alabaster and plaster, Aston Hill Farm 150 acres, houses, cottages, shops, The White Hart Inn at Aston, plots of pasture, meadow etc, Malthouse Buildings in Derby Road, Aston, Brickyard Plantation 6 acres, Field Farm in Shardlow 95 acres, Royden Hill Farm 78 acres, smallholdings, the village hall, post office and blacksmith's shop in Aston.
Gives address or name of property, acreages, details of sanitation, water supply, gas supply, wash houses and other outbuildings, catalogue of rooms, building materials, tenants, tenancies and rents, according to type of property.
Includes signed and stamped printed forms acknowledging purchases with purchase prices and deposits paid, and includes some memoranda acknowledging purchases. |