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Welsh Tithe Maps - National Library of Wales
WebWelsh Tithe Maps Discover the tithe maps of Wales Home Help History Tithe maps of Wales: search and browse over 300,000 entries and their accompanying apportionment … WebMost of the field-names in the database come from the Tithe maps, which date to about 1840. They were collected by the Herefordshire Field-Name Survey, organised by members of the Archaeological Research Section of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club (general editor Ruth E. Richardson), between 1987 and 1993 from the original maps and surveys ... chinese restaurant jamestown nd
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WebThe Library holds a set of tithe maps and associated schedules for Wales. All the tithe maps in the Library have now been catalogued and can be found in the Catalogue. … WebThe tithe maps. The accuracy of the maps depended on the skill of the local surveyors employed on the task. More than 200 different surveyors worked in Wales. The first … The term tithe map is usually applied to a map of an English or Welsh parish or township, prepared following the Tithe Commutation Act 1836. This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash rather than goods. The map and its accompanying schedule gave the names of all owners and occupiers of land in the parish. … See more The payment of one tenth of local produce to the church had been established in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. This was originally in kind: every tenth stook of corn, etc. It originally supported the local … See more Over time, in some parishes, the tithe owner came to an agreement with the tithe payers to receive cash instead of farm produce. This could be for a fixed period of time or indefinitely. During the period of parliamentary enclosure, the various Inclosure Acts abolished … See more • Church tax See more • William Foot, Maps for Family History (Public Record Office Readers Guide No 9, PRO Publications, 1994) • J. B. Harley, Maps for the local … See more The Tithe Commutation Act 1836 and an amending act in 1837 established a procedure whereby tithes could be converted to money payments. This required the drawing of an accurate map (the accuracy of which was certified by commissioners) … See more The maps and schedules held by the commissioners passed to the Inland Revenue (the predecessors of HMRC) and are now held in The National Archives at Kew (classes … See more • Cheshire's Tithe Maps Online • Norfolk E-Map Explorer - Historic tithe maps of Norfolk • Tithe Maps of Wales, National Library of Wales See more chinese restaurant island lake