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D685 - Chesterfield-Matlock Turnpike Trust - 1759-1899

TA - Treasurer - 1760-1880

TC - Clerk - 1800-1879

1-29 - Accounts of B M Lucas, clerk for salary and disbursements (1827, 1853, 1856 - 1858 missing) - 1826-1859

1-55 - Accounts - 1826-1879

30-55 - Accounts of Messrs Shipton & Halliwell, clerks for salary and disbursements - 1860-1879

56-57 - Memoranda on the provisions in various acts of Parliament relating to tolls - [c.1800]

56-128, 606-639 - Tolls and Tollhouses - 1800-1876

58 - List of annual income from tolls - 1800 - 1816

59 - List of annual income from tolls - 1817

60-66 - Notices and advertising that the tolls will be let by auction - 1817-1876

67-108 - Annual notices of conditions of letting the tolls with attached contracts. Note nos. 70, 73, 77, 80, 86, 88-89, 91, 92 and 95 bear notes of the bids made - 1817-1876

109 - Draft letter from B M Lucas to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, enquiring as to the correct stamp to be affixed to leases of tolls, 16 Nov - 1853

110-118 - Correspondence between B M Lucas and the Rev A J Sandilands, South Darley, on the subject of his leasing the tolls for three years at £430 a year - 1853-1855

119 - Letter from Adam Washington, Darley House, enquiring as to who is the lessee of the tolls, Jan - 1854

120-124 - Correspondence between Messrs Shipton & Halliwell and the North Darley Local Board concerning the provision of lights at the Toad Hole and Darley Bridge toll gates. - 1874-1877

125 - Agreement between the clerk and George Hoskin, collier, for the payment by Hoskin of £5 a year as a composition in lieu of tolls between his pits at Walton and the Hernston Lane Head Road, Apr - 1854

126 - Agreement between the trustees and Francis Rokeby Appleby, ironfounder, of Renishaw, for the payment by Appleby and his partners of £5 p.a. in lieu of tolls, from their pits at Walton to the Hernston Lane Head Road, Jun - 1855

127 - Letter from Appleby & Co, Renishaw lron Works, enclosing a cheque for £7 10s 0d in lieu of tolls, 16 Apr - 1860

128 - Letters from Appleby & Co, Renishaw lron Works, agreeing to an increase in the rate of composition in lieu of tolls from £7 10s 0d to £15 a year, 21 Nov - 1863

129-133 - Letters of application for post of surveyor - 1871

129-281 - Surveyor - 1854-1876

134 - Volume of monthly accounts of John Haslam and Charles Newbold surveyors, with yearly summaries - 1868-1876

135-138 - Annual estimates of expenditure upon the road - 1854-1865

139-168 - Monthly returns from workmen for work done upon the road, giving nature and situation of work, Jan-Oct - 1876

169-268 - Accounts for work done, etc - 1872-1876

269 - Letter from George Haslam, surveyor to the Trustees asking for an increase in salary, 28 May - 1853

270-273 - Receipts from Charles Newbold for salary - 1876

274-275 - Receipts from the clerks to Charles Newbold for money received towards expenses of a Trustees’ Meeting - 1876

276-278 - Annual accounts of John Haslam, surveyor - 1867-1870

279-281 - Surveyor’s Report - 1864-1871

282 - Summons to John Haslam to appear before the justices on 10 Nov, to answer allegations concerning the bad state of the road at Darley, 5 Nov - 1869

282-376 - Repairs of Roads - 1817-1879

283 - Report by three of the trustees upon the state of the road, 2 Sep - 1817

284 - Letter from N W Barnard to J Maynard complaining about the bad state of the road, 26 Dec - 1868

285-287 - Letters from the North Darley and Matlock Local Boards on the subject of the state of the road - 1879

288 - Report by Charles Newbold upon a survey of the amount of tolls taken at each gate, and upon the detrimental effect of over loaded wagons upon the road, 28 Sep - 1874

289 - Table of the average expenditure upon the road in the various townships, 1871-1873 - 1874

290 - Table of the length of road in each of the townships

291 - Memoranda on letting the repair of the road. Note this is written on the back of a fragment of a deposition concerning mining at Eyam - 1807

292 - Letter from William Stubbings, surveyor, concerning his application to the surveyors of Matlock for composition money. - [c.1800]

293 - Copy of letter sent to various townships, stating that the trustees will be ready to treat with them for the repair of the road on 29 May. Note the back of this bears a rough plan of a sectionof road and some rough accounts. - 1807

294 - Copy of letter from B M Lucas to Sampson Roe informing him that the agreement with George Nuthall for the repair of the road in Matlock and Darley will terminate on 1 Jun, 17 Jan - 1812

295 - Declaration from a vestry meeting at Darley, stating that the signatories are willing to take the road in Little Rowsley and Darley, 21 Sep - 1812

296 - Declaration as above, 4 Oct. Note the back of this bears a rough plan of the road - 1812

297 - Agreement by the parish of Matlock to be responsible for the repair of the road within the parish, 17 Oct - 1812

298-302 - Correspondence re responsibility for the repair of the roads held by Mr Heathcote and also the road from Matlock to Ashover, for £10 a year less than at present. - 1817

303 - Letter from John Wildgoose to North Darley Local Board, to Mr Haslam concerning a proposal that the trustees pay an annual sum to the Board for the repair of the road in its district, 2 Jan - 1871

304-305 - Particulars of proposed payments to parishes etc - 1876

306 - Draft agreement for the repair of the road - 1876

307-311 - Agreements with the parishes of Ashover and Wingerworth and the Local Boards of Darley, Matlock and Brampton and Walton, for the repair of the road in return from quarterly payments from the Trustees, 30 Oct - 1876

312-374 - Receipts from parishes and local boards for quarterly payments. - 1877-1879

375 - Letter from H S Cowdell inquiring into the possibility of an increase in the quarterly payments in view of the letting of the tolls for a greatly increased sum, 8 May - 1877

376 - Annual balance sheet of the North Darley Local Board showing money spent on repair of turnpike. - 1877-1878

377 - Copy letter to the surveyors of Matlock, Ashover and Darley, requiring them to collect and pay the composition and contribution money, within one month, 3 Jul - 1819

377-390 - Parish Contributions - 1819-1872

378 - Draft notice of intent to apply for parish contribution - 1865

379-380 - Notices of intent to apply to the justices for orders to pay contributions - 1865-1869

381-384 - Information of Joseph Shipton to the justices, when applying for contributions. - 1865-1869

385-388 - Justices’ orders for the payment of contributions - 1865-1869

389 - Table of contributions from each parish - 1869

390 - Table of contributions from parishes etc 1872, and account of expenditure in each parish 1864-1871 - 1872

390-412 - Correspondence and case papers relating to the prosecution of the inhabitants of Darley for non-repair of the road within the parish and the subsequent case against the turnpike for non-payment of the costs of the prosecution. - 1872-1874

413-479 - Correspondence and papers re winding up of the trust, including; references to the disposal of the following toll houses - Buntingfield, Toad Hole, Darley Bridge and Rowsley, Amber Lane, Rowsley Hill, Hut Bar, Two Dales, and Hoskar Lane. - 1879-1880

480 - Letter from John Tomlinson, surveyor of high-ways in Darley Upper Quarter, to B M Lucas concerning a valuation of stone lying by the side of the road, 18 Mar - 1852

480-640 - Correspondence - 1852-1879

481-484 - Correspondence with the Rev A J Sandilands Wensley, concerning a wall built by him at Cross Green which was considered to be an encroachment upon the turnpike. - 1853

485-486 - Letters from L [?Millesfield] stating that he will not object to stone getting from his land, providing no damage is done to the fences. - 1854

487-488 - Letters from R B Barrow enquiring if tolls are chargeable on salt, lime and manure for use on the land, under the local act - 1854

489 - Letter from Wm Etches asking to be sent copies of the annual statements, 17 Apr - 1856

490-491 - Letters from R B Barrow concerning alterations he proposes to make at the side of the turnpike at Sydnope, Nov - 1862

492-497 - Letters from George Hopkinson concerning special highway sessions. - 1865

498-507 - Letters from W J Neale and H I Cowdell on subject of contributions from the Matlock Local Board - 1865-1875

508-511 - Letter from the Home Office re turnpike returns with a copy of a return made in 1867. - 1863-1874

512-518 - Letters from the South Darley Local Board concerning repairs to the road from Cross Green Church to Darley Bridge. - 1865-1869

519 - Letter from J Haslam concerning the accounts of Jeb Haslam. - 1870

520-536 - Letters from the North Darley Local Board on the subject of contributions to the turnpike, the state of the road and the Board taking over responsibility for repair. - 1872-1879

537-542 - Letters from Rev D Vawdrey on the subject of contributions from the parish of Darley. - 1873-1876

543 - Letter from the Matlock Local Board complaining about flooding of the road due to a blocked drain, 3 Mar - 1875

544-549 - Letters from Rev N B Milnes, Colweston Rectory, Stamford (Staffordshire), complaining that Charles Newbold had been taking slag from a heap belonging to him at Stonedge without permission and without payment, with a reply from Charles Newbold. - 1876

550 - Copy letter from Shipton and Halliwell to Charles Newbold, concerning Mr Simm’s account, 20 Nov - 1875

551-552 - Letters from the Brampton and Walton Local Board on the subject of their taking over the repair of the road. - 1876

553-554 - Letter from Thomas White enclosing a resolution passed at an Ashover vestry meeting rejecting an offer made by the turnpike but stating that they remain open to further offers, 14 Oct - 1876

555 - Letter from Thomas Beck concerning an overdue account, 25 Jan - 1877

556-558 - Letters from the Matlock Local Board on the - 1876

559 - Letter from the Ashover Lime Co, complaining about non-payment for stone supplied in 1865-1866. - 1877

560-561 - Letters from Thomas White, surveyor of Ashover concerning tools in the custody of J Fretwell and land being taken in by Joseph Pendleton. - 1877-1878

562-605 - Letters from Charles Newbold, surveyor, mostly asking for money to pay bills. - 1873-1877

606-639 - Leases of tolls, with associated papers - 1824-1876

640 - Assignment of tolls to James Baird of Chesterfield, draper, Joshua Smith of Derby, mercer and Joshua Fidler of Derby, innholder - 1760

TT - Trustees - 1759-1880

TZ - Miscellaneous - 1845-1899

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