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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

Archive Collection: MS Dep. 1956/1

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS Dep. 1956/1

Date(s): 1875-1947

Language: English

Size and medium: 5 boxes, manuscript, typescript, and printed material.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6628

Collection group(s): Business Archives

Description

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century; (2) 5 files of receipts; (3) Extensive Company correspondence, including 2 files on Income Tax matters.


Many of the documents are accompanied by plans.

Biography or history

The Yorkshire Land and Warping Company had a registered office at Thorne near York between about 1875 and 1947. Warp is silty, earthy matter carried by tides and rivers which enhances the fertility of the land. Warping is a method of flooding land on purpose to deposit layers of warp.

Provenance

Deposited by Dr J. S. Taylor.

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