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The 1871 Land return has been transcribed by Caroline Gaden and her band of Australian helpers
| Elizabeth Agar | Stephanie Arcaro | Angela Booth |
| Anola Borton | Pierce Bragg | June Chan |
| Janice Cornwell | Carolyn De Bona | Ruth Eschmann |
| Dahlis Marie Evans | Leonie Fretwell | Judy Gill |
| Helen Gray-Brookes | Lizzie Kelly | Paul Kirby |
| Brenda Kunce | Angela Lacy | Sandy Liddle |
| Karlena Lockett | Mandy Maxstead | Kay Need |
| Maureen Reynolds | Karen Smith | Marilyn Smith |
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I asked Caroline to write a paragraph or two to go on this page to introduce the data, and her (edited) reply appears below:
I only have the NRY pages with no explanation!
The name of land owner (over 6000 of them) and his address is
pretty self evident. The land owned has just acreage (over 1 acre)
and gross estimated rental with no indication of where the land
is. Some is obviously worth a lot more than others and I assume
it is, for example, shops locations in Scarborough rather than
farming land.
The only use for the list is to be able to say 'Yes my ancestor
owned some land!!'
The brackets round some locations indicates the possible location
of the land, this tends to occur if the owner is listed as a Bank
or other organisation.
The list has Population in 1871
Total owners of land of one acre and upwards 6198,
Extent of lands 1,029,362 acres 1 rood 4 perches
for a gross estimated rental of £1,542,624/6s/0d
Total owners of land of less than one acre in extent 10,115
with 2113 acres 0 roods 3 perches
for a gross estimated rental of £299,320/12s/0d.
Estimated extent of any common or waste land in the county 247,408 acres 2 roods 39 perches
These files were originally posted to the Yorksgen mailing list, to which Martyn Gleaden added the following which you may find helpful:
It occurred to me whilst reading Caroline's excellent postings that only a handful of listers would know what an acre, a rood and a perch actually was.
It all started with the Medieval common field which was worked as strips, each strip being worked by a different person. A standard ploughing strip was sixteen and a half feet (5.5 yards) wide. This was known variously as a rod, pole or perch. A ploughing strip 220 yards long was a furlong or rood and an area of 4 roods made an acre.
In towns this same measure of land was used. A standard street frontage was 16.5 feet and town burgage plots were long and thin just like field strips.
Land area was measured as:
In addition:
1 chain = 22yards = the length of a cricket pitch.
Wasn't life simpler before the m2 and hectare?
Finally the links to the files. At the time of writing, they are not complete but will be added to as and when they have been transcribed and sent to me.
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