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Barrow tithe map schedule 1837

Barrow tithe map schedule 1837

This transcription of the Tithe Map Schedule for Barrow in Cheshire was originally transcribed by Katherine C. SYNGE and typed/indexed by L A Muriel. Further details are as follows:

Mrs.Vera CHAPMAN writing about her study of West Cheshire Villages says:-
"Barrow has a particularly interesting set of field-names, and field shapes.
They are one of a group of Townships in West Cheshire where the Open Field System
decayed slowly and most have lasted into much later times than has hitherto been
supposed".

A great-grand-daughter of George OKELL of Barrow Hall in the Tithe Map, remembered
the Number of the OKELL Quillet in the Town Meadow

The following are some of the Field Names that perpetuate this Open Field Cultivation
the numbers in brackets refer to those shown on the Tithe Maps:-
LOONT - is an open strip in a former Open Field of Mediaeval times or earlier e.g.
Barrow Hill Loont (441)
Long Loonts (454) now softened to "Long Looms" on which Council House stand.
DOWL - e.g. Little Dowl (3E4)
FLATT - e.g. Marsh Flatt (4E5)
Flatt Croft (588)
Iron Flatt (669)
Flatt Cheese (125) etc.
BUTT - is described as Setting up the ridge & the 7 rounds of ploughing
e.g. Nine Butts (336) commerates gthe number of Butts enclosed to make up
the field.
Flax Butts (463) etc.
REANS - (Re-aris) are described today as bring the hollws berween Butt strips, said to
be for drainage sometimes, but in places may mark open strip cultivation
Wheat Reans (468) etc.
INTAKE - CLOSE - INCLOSURE In which these names occur on Barrow Hill, next to the
strip shaped fields, they indicate small fields eclosed from once
larger Open Field. (438) (460) (437) (422) (640) etc.

Other interesting names of Known Meanings
RIDDING - (O.E. Hryding) neans a Clearing or a cleared land, a name common in
Cheshire which was mostly thick woodland.
Fields now bearing the name "Ridding" were historically late in being cleared
and the name distinguished them as new land compared to the older
cultivated fields. Grow Riddind (85), Pool Ridding (206) etc.
INGOT or PINFOLD - (O.E.Pundfald) was an enclosure for strayed or distrained beasts
and were once a feature of every village, The Tithe Map shows 3 Pingots

1. Great Barrow (542) now the new Churchyard
2. Little Barrow in two portions (105 & 112) each once called "Part of Pingot"
3. A small Pingot on Broomhill Hill (416)

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Publication Date	2012-03-17
Author	Katherine C. SYNGE & L A Muriel
Publisher	Society of Genealogists
Comment	Appointment of the Rent Charge in lieu of Tithes in the Parish of Barrow in the County of Cheshire Whereas an Agreement for the Commutation of Tithes in the Parish of Barrow in the County of Cheshire was on the twelfth day of April in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty eight, confirmed by the Tithe Commisioners for England & Wales of which agreement, with the Schedule thereunto annexed, the following is a copy:- Provisional Articles of Agreement for the Commutation of the Tithes of the Parish of Barrow in the County of Cheshire in pursuance of the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England & Wales made and executed at a meeting duly called and holden at the Charity School Room in the said Parish on the twenty seventh day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and since acted upon according to the provisions of the said Act by and between the several persons Owners of Land within the said Parish by whom or by whose agents duly authorised on their behalf these presents are executed and the interest of which Land Owners in the Lands of the said Parish is cut less than two thirds of the Land therein subject to Tithes of the one part and the Reverend John CLARK, clerk, Rector of the said Parish and owner of all Tithes as well great as small thereof of the other part. It is by these presents witnessed that at the said Meeting it hath been and is mutually agreed upon by and between all said Parties to these Presents in manner following, that is to say: That the annual sum of Four Hundred and Sixty Pounds by way of Rent Charge for the whole Parish of Barrow (subject to variations as in the said Act provided and subject to the other provisions therein contained) shall be payable and paid to the said John CLARK as Rector of the said Parish and Owner of all Tithes there of and to his successors in stead of all the Tithes as well great as small of the Lands of the said Parish subject to Tithes and of all Mod'uses and Conmpositions Real and Prescriptive and customery payments payable in respect of such Lands or the Pruduce thereof. In testimony whereof the said parties to these presents or their respective agents, thereunton duly authorised in their Names and on their behalf, have to these presents subscribed and set their respective Hands and Seals. SCHEDULE To the above Articles of Agreement containing a statement of all particulars required by the said Act to be set forth or otherwise equisite for the purposes of the Agreement. The whole Parish of Barrow contains by estimation Two Thousand seven hundred and seventy four statute Acres of Land the hole of which is subject to the payment of Tithes and whereof it is estimated that Two Thousand and Seventy four Statute Acres are cultivated as Meadow or Pasture Lands and Seven hundred statute Acres as Arable Lands. The Glebe consists of the site of the Rectory House Homestead and Garden only but no Land. There is not any Woodland or Common Land There is not any Land wholly exempt from the payment of Tithes. The undermentioned Moduses, Compositions, Prescriptions or Customery Payments are payable instead of the undermentioned Tithes of the said Parish and the under- mentioned Lands and Tithes are covered thereby respectively. The sum of seven shillings, instead of the Tithe of Half, of a certain Farm and Lands comprising One Hundred and Ffty six Statute acres now in occupation of George OKELL, called the Barrow Hall Farm. The sum of seven shillings and sixpence, instead of the Tithes of Hay of a certain Farm and Lands comprising one hundred and eleven acres, one rood & eight perches, statute measure, now in occupation of Thomas WILLIAMS, called Wildings Farm (now Brook Farm, Hallowmoor Heath) The total amount to which the Lands of the said Parish of Barrow are subject to the payment of Tithes, assessed to the Relief of the Poor, is Two Thousand Four Hundred Forth Four pounds nine shillings and a penny. Now I Thomas BURGESS of Bradley Hall in the Township of Appleton in the County of Cheshire, having been duly appointed to apportion the Total sum agreed to be paid by way of Rent Charge, in lieu of Tithes, amongst the several Lands of the said Parish of Barrow, do hereby apportion the Rent Charge as follows:- Gross Rent Charge payable to the Tithe Owner, in lieu of Tithes for the Parish of Barrow is Four Hundred and Sixty Pounds Value of in imperial Bushels and Decimal Prts of an Imperial Bushel of Wheat, Barley & Oats :- viz: Price per Bushel Bushels & Decimal Parts Wheat 7s.Â¼d. 436.79525 Barley 3s.11Â½d. 774.73684 Oats 2s.9d. 1115.15151 Note: The greater part of the Parish of Barrow belonged to the family of Savage, in 1784 these Lands passed, by marriage, to the family of Cholmondeley, until 1919, when the Chalmondley Estates in Barrow were sold, mostly to their tenants. The Chalmondley Estate Papers are now in the County Record Office & contain a good deal of information about these leases in Barrow. Note: Site names are added in [ ], and there is also some suggestions, from previous occupiers, as to the origin of the field names.
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Barrow tithe map schedule 1837

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