Title:
Enclosure award and map
Level: Category
Estate and Family records
Level: Fonds
TOWER FAMILY OF SOUTH WEALD
Level: Sub-Fonds
MISCELLANEOUS
Level: Series
Miscellaneous
Level: Sub-Series
South Weald enclosure
Scope and Content:
(i) Award (34 mm.) under An Act for inclosing lands within the manor and parish of Southweald in the county of Essex [52 Geo III, c. 45 (1812)]. No field-names.
At front: oaths of commissioners John Trumper of Harefield, Middlesex, and Thomas Brown of Luton, Bedfordshire, gentlemen, 14 May 1812, and of James Trumper of Harefield, gentleman, in place of John Trumper deceased, 3 February 1815, with act of appointment of James Trumper, 3 February 1815; oath and certificate of William Woodcock of Iver, Buckinghamshire, land surveyor, 19 April 1819. The award notes (m.1) that Woodcock based his survey on map and survey made in 1789 and 1790 by John Middleton (D/DTw P3), supplied by Christopher Thomas Tower, lord of the manor.

(ii) 'The plan referred to by the annexed award'

Scale bar of 5 inches to 40 chains [1:6336, or 10 inches to one mile].

Area enclosed 400 acres [according to Enclosure Act]: [Risehill], Wealdside and Bentley Mill Commons, extending along the west, north-west and north-east boundary of the parish, with smaller areas at Coxtie Green, Pilgrims Hatch and along roads. Shows names of allottees, purchasers and roads, some buildings in block plan, lakes in Weald Park, public gravel pit at Bentley Common. Drawings of parish church, Bentley post mill and Brook Street post mill; colouring for allotments (green), roads (buff), buildings (pink) and water (blue).
Dates of Creation:
1819
Extent:
1 volume
Custodial History:
The Act directs that the award shall be deposited in the parish church, and this, received from private custody, is undoubtedly the parish copy.
Physical Characteristics:
Volume in contemporary binding [repaired at an unknown date before 2007], 715 x 600 x 30 mm.
Map, unfolded, 550 x 870 mm.
Award and map both on parchment and damaged by damp (the award at edges, the map at fold).
Related Unit of Description:
Award, map and oaths noted as enrolled in Court of Common Pleas, Hilary 59 Geo. III [1819], for which see National Archives CP 43/943 and - for the map - National Archives MPL 1/32. See also maps of awarded roads and footpaths, 1812 (D/DTw P8), and two drafts or copies of award map, 1813 (D/DTw P7) and 1819 (D/DTw P4).

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Place Names South Weald Enclosure award and map, 1819
Document Types Enclosure award South Weald, 1819
Document Types Enclosure map South Weald, ?1819