Norfolk: Ashill 1816 - Land Valuation

This is one item from a Norfolk Record Office document [with the reference PD 548/79 and microform MF 718/11] and is a Valuation of land in the Parish for 1816.

It is a very detailed document listing what appears to be every strip of land and giving the owners names and the field names. These main items have been listed but for more detail the reader must see the original.

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Assessment	1816

The original document had the following headings spelt out in full. They have been contracted to allow for a clearer display.

No of Qual = "No of Qualities"
Proprietors = "Proprietors Names"
Part^c Land = "Particular Land"
Part^c Value = "Particular Value"

No of Qual	No in the Map	Proprietors	N^o of Pieces	Part^c Land	Value P^r Acre	Part^c Value	Total Land	Total Value
		Dovehouse Furlong begins North
	1	Petre -- Be	1	.890	ce	13 350
	1a	Campbell -- B	1	.610		9 150
	2	D^o	1	1 466		21 990
	3	James Smith	1	.528		7 920
	4	Petre -- Be	1	.822		12 330
	5	Smith	1	.946		14 190
	6	Glebe	1	1 302		19 530
	7	Campbell -- B	1	1 892		28 380
	8	D^o -- B	1	1 264		18 960

							9720	145 800
	9	Peter (sic) -- Be	1	.576		8 064
	10	Campbell -- B	1	.730		10 220
	11	Joseph Bull	1	.252		3 528
	12	Campbell -- B	1	.752		10 528
	13	Glebe	1	.700		9 800
	14	Francis Ripper	1	1 400		19 600
	15	Glebe	1	1 040		14 560
	16	Campbell	1	1 050	cb	14 700
2
3	17	Petre -- B	Close	5.780	ce	86.700

Note that gaps were left in the original to indicate what appears to be the decimal point ie. "."
The letters "B" and "Be" were at the far right hand side of the "Proprietors" column and their meaning is unknown.
The value of "ce" appears to be 15 pounds here.
Plots 9-14 appear to use 14 pounds for the value of "cb" perhaps?

Tables similar to the above for "Dovehouse Furlong" are now done for all the following areas :-

Grays Acre begins North
Bennetts Crofts begins North
Wet Furlong begins West
Hicklings Field begins East
Twelve Acre Furlong begins South
Rippers Field begins South
Shack Pightle begins South
Ingrove Corner begins West
(Sallow Pit Close)
Meadow Furlong begins North
Crofts begins West
Masons Corner
Little Furlong next the Bounds begins South
Pinchgut Furlong begins East
Little Furlong East of Meadow Furlong begins South

Meadows begins North
Pingle Hurn begins South
Washpit Pightles begins North
----- Mill Field -----
Rush Meadow Furlong begins North
Elm Furlong begins East
Hemp Pit Furlong begins North
Mill Furlong begins East
Lodge Close Furlong begins South
Danes Pightle begins East
Garden Pightle Furlong begins North
Warren Corner begins North
Crofts begins South
(Millers Close)


118	1	Petre	T Close
119	2	Micklethwayt
	3	Campbell	B
120	4	Petre	T Close
121	5	Coke	Millers Close

N.B. All the last mentioned Lands are shacked a fortnight after Michaelmas until Lady Day And Mr Cokes sheep go over the whole.

Tables similar to the above for "Dovehouse Furlong" are now done for all the following areas :-

Caudle Field
Grove Close Furlong begins East
Bottom Furlong begins West
Gutlings Furlong begins East
Lower Close Furlong begins East
Burnt Oak Furlong begins West
High noon Furlong begins East
Walsingham Way Furlong begins North
West side Walsingham Way begins North
Caudle Furlong begins South

Drakes Meadow Furlong begins West
inc Marlpit Close
Buskey lay Furlong begins North
Hungerhill Furlong begins West
East of Last begins South
Thorpe Corner begins North
Bittering Closes Furlong begins West
Broadway Pightle begins South
Crossway Pightles begins South

N.B. All the lands included in Folio's 13 and 21 are shacked a Fortnight after Michaelmas until Lady Day and Lord Petre's sheep go over the whole.

----- High Common -----
Dashwood and Campbells Sheepwalk
Lord Petre Sheepwalk
Tho^s W Coke Esq^r Sheepwalk
The in or end Ground
Low Common

Whole Year Inclosures

This is followed by Names and Places.

The following are additional to those already mentioned.
Closes :- Broom, Bush, Canhams, Chapmans, Cobs, Collins, Cranes, Dock, Dovehouse, Frost, Glassman, Grays, Grove, Hill, Horse, Johnsons, Joshua's, Knaves, Long, Lords, Lowerlay, Manor, Masons, New, Nurses, Orrices, Plumb, Ravens, Rush, Slead, Upper, Wood.

Meadows :- Bush, Manor, Moat, Round, Well.

Pightles :- Cates, Common, Pound, Steeple.

Other names :- Burnt Yards, Bruntons, Cringle Pit Breck, Gully Wong, Jockeys, Mutton Hill (Gravel Pit), Night Pastures, Road, Russel Toft, Upper Pastures, Whomacks, Wood Entry, Walnut Tree Yard.
58 Smith - Publick House &c

Town Streets Roads and Lanes

Green Acre to the White Post
Reynolds's Way
From Low Common to Warren Corner
Lane by Easticks House
From Low Common to Lord Petres Rush Meadow
From the last leading to Pingle Hurn Closes
North side Bush Close
Whomacks Lane
From Low Common to the Church Yard
From High Common by the Church Yard to the Holloway
From Low Common to North end of Oak Pit Lane
From Thorpe Corner to Low Common
Lane between Hawkins and Orrices Closes
Lane East side Orrice's
From Oak Pit Lane to the Field
Uphall Lane
Grove Lane
Half the Lane from East end of Hunts Close
N^o 51 to Mill Field
Half the Lane from White Post to Longborough Breck
Half Narmans Lane

Whole Year Inclosures

Names are given and the number is the entry where they occur for the first time.

1 Petre
2 Campbell
4 Coke
6 M^rs Coke
9 Mr Coke
10 Wm Burch - Esq^r
19 Micklethwayt
27 Robert Cook
28 James Thompson
29 Robert Mallows Sen^r
31 Wid^w & Thomas Percival

33 Ann Percival W^w
34 John Crake
35 Mary Mallows
37 Samuel Hunt
38 Robert Eastick
38 Edmund Buscall
43 James Smith
48 Robert Mallows
49 Smith
53 Townland
63 Thomas Willett

64 Bell Willomatt
65 Robert Knopwood
67 Thomas Fakes
68 Rev^d Charles Parrott
93 Samuel Dunn
95 Ann Ripper
96 Edmund Oldfield
97 Jos Bull
98 Thomas Percival
100 Thomas Bennett
105 Crockley

108 John Belloe
109 Matthew Buscall
124 Stebbings
136 Frances Oldfield
137 Hunt
139 Elizabeth Tenant
140 John West
145 Rev^d J S Watts
152 Micklethwayt
159 John Oldfield

Inclosures in Dispute

Names of people involved :- Petre, Mrs Chute, Coke and Smith.

Places include :- Horse Close, Little Field, Buskey lay Close, Breaks Meadow, Green Acre, Skinners Close, Long Seven Acres, Stronglands, Windmill Entry, Pest? Pit Close, Lammas Meadow, Hazel Pit, Warren Close and Fox Pit.

Mr Chutes land in dispute :- Windmill Close, Haystack Breck and Heath.

List of Owners

No	Names (or places)	No of first Qualities
1	Lord Petre	1
2	Thomas William Coke Esq^r	6
3	E and C Campbell	1
4	The Rev^d J S Watts
5	The Rev^d William Young	126
6	Thomas Lobbe Chute Esq^r	61
7	Hammond Alpe Esq^r
8	James Smith	1
9	Edmund Buscall	11
10	D^o for Bell Willomatt	18
11	D^o for Mary Mallows	131
12	John Micklethwayt Esq^r	13
13	William Hamilton Esq^r	124
14	The Rev^d Charles Parrott	11
15	Francis Ripper Sen^r	2
16	Samuel Fuller	43
17	Thomas Shuckforth Dixon	101
18	William Keddell	67
19	Samuel Hunt	14
20	Thomas Percival	22
21	Robert Mallows	88
22	Robert Eastick	60
23	William Ward	152
24	Overseers of Ashill	78
25	Joseph Bull	1
26	Frances Oldfield
27	John West
28	Robert Knopwood
29	Sarah Dunn
30	Elizabeth Stebbings
31	Ann Percival Widow	93?
32	W^w Ann & Thomas Percival	22
33	Thomas Percival and Wife
34	Elizabeth Tenant
35	James Thompson
36	Edward Crockley
37	Thomas Bennett
38	John Belloe
39	Robert Cooke
40	Matthew Buscall
41	John Crake
42	Thomas Willett
43	Ann Ripper
44	--- Tooke
45	John Oldfield
46	Edmund Oldfield
47	John Richard Dashwood & Jarratt Dashwood Esq^r
48	William Burch Esq^r
49	Thomas Fakes
50	Dashwood & Campbell Sheepwalk
51	Lord Petre D^o
52	Thomas William Coke Esq^r
53	The end Ground
54	Low Common

The third column above (which was not in the original) has been filled in where details were noted.

[End of Document]

Notes

In this document the following alternative spellings have been seen which appear to refer to the same people/places:-
Keddell/Kiddle, Willomatt/Willowmatt
See Charity page for more on the Townland.