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RECORDS OF THE MANOR OF WAKEFIELD

Archive Collection: YAS/MD225 Contains records with digital media

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: RECORDS OF THE MANOR OF WAKEFIELD

Level: Collection

Classmark: YAS/MD225

Date(s): 1274-1988

Language: English; Latin

Size and medium: 213 boxes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/450364

Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

Description

Comprising Wakefield court rolls 1274-1925; various docket books and other indexes 15th to 20th cent; records of the extinguishment of the manor 1926-1947; various manuscripts relating to the history of the manor 17-18 cent; also including accounts of rents, fines etc in Brighouse, Halifax and Holmfirth 1785-1813, surveys of the graveships of Alverthorpe, Hipperholme, Holme, Ossett, Rastrick, Sandal, Scammonden, Sowerby, Stanley and Thornes 1803-c1860; enclosure records for Alverthorpe, Darton, Emley, Golcar, Hartshead, Holme, Horbury, Normanton, Ossett, Ovenden, Sandal, Scammonden, Sowerby and Soyland, Stainland, Wakefield and Wharley; maps and plans, notably copy plan of the boundaries of the graveship of Holme (temp Henry V) c1757, plan of the manor of Liversedge n.d. (late 17th or early 18th cent) (see also SMS1127). Also includes a bull of Pope Martin IV to the Bishop of Durham 1285. Also Wakefield manor, graveship of Holme, notice of public meeting.

Physical characteristics

Measurement details: YAHS Survey: outsize measurements not taken during survey. REB 06.11.2018

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