Bibliography

WILTON PAPERS

[At Greater Manchester County Record Office, ref. DDEg.]

This collection includes the following papers relating to the Wilton Estates at Wrinehill (details taken from Preliminary Calendar of Family/Estate Archives of the Egerton family, Earls of Wilton of Heaton Hall, Manchester, kindly brought to my attention by Eric Foster of Oldham):


page 18

Wrinehill Deeds

1. Expired leases and agreements 1606-1774; Betley Church 1758; Betley Bridge 1638 etc.

2. Madeley. Terriers etc.

3. Wrinehill brook. Water rights. Map. 1723.

5.-7. Madeley

8. Estate correspondence 18th C. Rentals 1555-1635

page 31

Box 2 Bundle 28. Includes lease register for Wrinehill and Basford (1776)

Box K Bundle 44D. Lower Wrinehill toll-house, Betley. 1877.

page 32

Box D. Bundle 59. Title deeds & family settlements relating to Egerton estates in Wrinehill, 14th C. – 17th C.

page 35

Bundle 203. Lease of lands in Betley to Geo. Tollet. 1802

page 38

Sale particulars

9. Freehold agricultural estates at Betley and Wrinehill 28/10/1918

page 44

Early Rentals

4. Survey of estates of Sir John Egerton: tenants; field names etc. Includes Wrinehill, Ravenshall, Betley, Anneley, Cheadleton & Basford in Staffs.

5. Rentals for… Wrinehill and Onely, Cheadleton… 1743

page 45

Unclassified items

2. Rental of Wrinehill, Onely & Ravenshall. 1771

7. Rent arrears in … Wrinehill …1826

13. Register giving leases, dates of leases… & ages of existing lives in property in … Wrinehill … 1791

page 46

Rental Account Books

1 – 5. Includes Wrinehill & Cheadleton, Staffs. 1743-1790

pages 56 & 57

Annual Rent Account Books

1 – 57. Include Wrinehill 1771-1885

page 58

Rental Ledgers of Tenants

6. Wrinehill 1759-1791

page 62

Rental Ledgers

(Wrinehill probably included, but no places are given in the Calendar) 1825-1911

page 105

229. Letting of Lord Nelson Inn, Wrinehill 1917

page 109

269. Tree-planting at Wrinehill estate. 1908-9

279. Papers relating to Wrinehill estate (possible coal-mining, timber, list of tenants etc.) 1908-16

280. Timber at Wrinehill 1908

281. Wrinehill papers (inc. woods, railways, tenants) 1828-1912

page 118

358. Correspondence re Betley Butty Land, Staffs. 1913-14

359. Re Robt. Peake, local agent at Wrinehill; his death and re-letting of his farm 1916-17

page 128

457. (Kenyon and) Wrinehill sales 1918

page 129

463. ‘Old correspondence’ [includes 3 items at Wrinehill] (1900-13)

page 130

470. ‘Wrinehill papers, agreements etc.’ 1892-1917

Miscellaneous papers

471. ‘Wrinehill’ Includes lease of Wrinehill demesne 1822, Timber accts., 1859-64, Insurance policies 1860-96. & (11) expired agreements. 1822-1909

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6. PLANS of Wrinehill Estate

1. Lands of Sir Thos. Grey Egerton, Bt. in Wrinehill, Betley and Onneley, pt. of Madeley n.d. (c.1750)

2. Plan of Betley Mere 1838-9

3. Land sold to Ephraim Brassington, Greengrocer at Betley between Old Rd. & Turnpike Rd. n.d. (c. 1870)

4. Wrinehill mill 1876

5. & 6. O.S. maps 25" 1876-91

7. Cottage plans n.d. (c. 1885)

8. Loose boxes. 1886

9. Proposed farm buildings at Onneley 1893

10. O.S. maps 6" 1900-03

11. Wrinehill Hall loose boxes, alterations and drainage 1901-07

12. Yew Tree Farm drainage, Onneley 1904

13. O.S. maps 6" ‘marked-up’ 1908

14. Proposed new building at Wood Farm, Onneley 1912

page 141

Draft Ref. Books

1. Wrinehill 1890

page 157

Loose Bundles

4. (Kenyon and) Wrinehill sales (sale particulars) 1918.

[page 157 is the last page in the Calendar]


NB: A Wilton Papers catalogue is available from Greater Manchester County Record Office: http://www.gmcro.co.uk/catalogues/Downloads/downloads.htm


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