Catalogue

3 July 1673 (1) John Byerly of Wiserley, parish of Wolsingham, yeoman (2) Thomas Hedley of Hedley Hill, parish of Lanchester, yeoman Assignment by (1) to (2) of a leasehold tenement and lands in Hedley and Cornsay for the remainder of a term of 90 years Consideration: not stated

3 November 1687 (1) Sir Ralph Cole of Brancepeth Castle, bart. (2) John Madgshon of Bedburn Park, gent. Bond in £5 for the performance of covenants in indentures of equal date

Accounts of Ralph Pickering as an assignee of Joseph Emerson of Wolsingham, butcher, 13 June 1811 - 16 September 1812

Farm labour and other accounts [in more than one hand], 16 July 1820 - 29 April 1854

Press cutting of verses entitled Lost on the Moor "Isaac Walton Jun.", Westgate, Weardale, by John Grey, n.d. [mid 19th c.] Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/4/1

Wallet notebook containing memoranda of expenses for horses and tree planting, a recipe for cough medicine, etc., 1826-40

Receipt of Dorothy Brownless for damage caused to land and clay removed by the Weardale Iron and Coal Company, Ltd., at Hedley Hill, 25 March 1875 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/5/1

Rough memorandum book of Henry Pickering of Hedley Hill containing particulars of planting and cutting; remedies; political notes; accounts; details of toll gates, etc., 9 February 1827 - 22 May 1850

List of names, addresses, and houses, n.d. [c.1840] Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/6

Letter from Rev. Joseph Thompson, Satley Parsonage, to H. Pickering, requesting the latter to inspect letters from Messrs. Griffith and Crighton concerning Cornsay and Hedley Common, 10 April 1848 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/6

Accounts for crops, livestock, farm and domestic items, 16 January 1834 - 20 February 1857

Notice of meeting to be held on 3 March 1846, at the Justice Room, Lanchester, for hearing objections to the proposed enclosure of Cornsay Common, 5 February 1846

Award of Henry Stapylton concerning rights on Cornsay and Hedley Common, 9 December 1848

Receipt from the Weardale Iron Co., Tow Law, to Henry Pickering, for the purchase of five loads of bricks, 26 May 1849 - 27 July 1849

3 March 1851 (1) Sir Thomas John Clavering of Axwell Park and Greencroft, bart; John Greenwell of Broomshields, esq.; Edward Taylor Smith of Coldpike Hall, esq.; Ralph Pickering of Hedley Hill, gent.; Ann Mary Pemberton of Castle Gate House, city of York, widow; Anne Fenwick of Dipton, spinster; Elizabeth Fenwick of the same, spinster; and Rev. Joseph Thompson of Satley, clerk (2) Charles Attwood of Tow Law, esq. Copy of licence by (1) to (2) for the use and continuance of the present works and manufactories on Cornsay and Hedley Common for the remainder of a term of 21 years Consideration: £120 p.a.

Account of Henry Pickering of Hedley Hill with the Weardale Iron Co., Tow Law, 8 January 1858 - 29 November 1873

Letter from John Watson, 6 Saddler Street, Durham, to Henry Pickering, Hedley Hill, nr. Satley, concerning a lease between Pickering and Attwood, 19 April 1861

Letter from James Raine, Durham, to H. Pickering concerning a valuation of Lowes's farm at Bell's House, 12 February 1866

Letter from Richard Thompson, Sir Hedworth Williamson's and Mr. Bell's Central Committee Rooms, 38 Saddler Street, Durham, to unidentified addressee, soliciting votes and offering an order for a ticket from Lanchester or Tow Law, 16 November 1868

Letter from George F. Boyd, Victoria Buildings, Grainger Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, to [? R. Pickering] concerning the payment and collection of fee farm rents, 11 December 1874

Letter from Edward F. Boyd, Moor House, Fencehouses, to H. Pickering, Hedley Hill, Cornsay, concerning Cornsay and Hedley fee farm rents, October 1877

Letter from Robert F. Boyd, Moor House, Leamside, to R. Pickering, Hedley Hill, Cornsay, concerning Cornsay and Hedley fee farm rents, 28 August 1878

19 September 1804 Probate copy of will, 5 January 1804, of Henry Smith of Stenton [Stainton] making bequests of his personal estate to wife, Susanna, and children

Farm accounts of John Smith Brownless, 2 April 1846 - 26 July 1851 Includes: additional memoranda of settlements of accounts, 10 June 1852, 1854, and 4 May 1872

Accounts of John Smith Brownless for Oxclose Farm, 2 April 1846 - 11 July 1857 Includes: an account of implements sold at Oxclose sale, 12 May 1852; and two entries for 1880

Livestock accounts of John Smith Brownless, an unidentified individual, and George Darnton Brownless, 11 May 1846 - 1893

Accounts of the executors of the late Newby Brownless, 1876 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/24/1

Schedule of farm implements, n.d. [1876] Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/24/1

Livestock accounts, including record of horses sold on 12 May 1852, at the Oxclose Farm sale, 21 November 1846 - 30 January 1893

Accounts of rents, taxes and other outgoings, for White Lea Farm, High Wooley Farm and Helm Park Farm, May 1846-1877 Includes: valuation of damage caused to Helm Park in building the railway from Tow Law, 24 October 1865

Memorandum book and almanac for 1847, containing epitaphs; recipes; remedies; field quantities including those for Hedley Hill Farm; particulars of other farms at Thornley, Sunderland Bridge, High Croxdale and Tudhoe, c.1847 - 1 November 1882

Papers relating to quantities of freehold and leasehold lands and land on Ivesley Common, n.d. Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/27

Text on the duty of the individual, 4 November 1829 Originally enclosed in 1086/27

Farm labour account, 3 September 1851 - 21 July 1881

Memoranda of the purchase of roof tiles, bricks and lime; of masons' work carried out; and of harvesting crops, 23 June 1858 - 25 August 1859 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/31

Account of sale by auction of the stock and farm implements of Oxclose Farm, 12 May 1852

Farm implements accounts, May 1855 - 1 October 1877

Milk and butter accounts, 14 May 1855 - 11 November 1856

Memorandum book and almanac for 1861, containing an obituary note, remedies, accounts, and measurements of the Mill Isle, Wolsingham, 1874-1881

Record of stock, houses, and other property, belonging to Mr. J. Brownless, 1867; account of the funeral expenses of Eleanor Brownless, 24 January 1877; memoranda of accounts of Newby Brownless, n.d. [c.1877]

Memorandum of meetings at Tow Law regarding trespass on Hedley and Cornsay Fell, 15-29 May 1893

Diary of [George D. Brownless] for 1897

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 7 June 1900 - 21 July 1900

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 1 January 1901 - 14 February 1901

Notebook [of George D. Brownless], containing a daily record of [the working of Greenfield Farm?], 7 May 1901 - 20 June 1901

Notebook [of George D. Brownless], containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 5 August 1901 - 31 August 1901

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 1 September 1901 - 16 October 1901

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 1 March 1901 - 30 April 1902

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 1 May 1902 - 25 July 1902

Notebook [of George D. Brownless], containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 1 September 1902 - 9 October 1902

Notebook of George D. Brownless, containing a daily record of the working of Greenfield Farm, 23 October 1902 - 31 December 1902

Account of rents and other monies received by Mary Ellen Dixon and Margaret Brownless (née Storey), 14 April 1877 - 23 November 1898

Diary of Mrs. M.E. Snowdon, née Brownless, of Greenfield, Etherley, relating mainly to purchases and sales, 1899

Rent receipts of Mrs. M.E. Snowdon, 14 February 1900 - 20 August 1910 Includes: domestic accounts, 1918-19

Recipe book of Dorothy Snowdon of Grosvenor House, Wolsingham, n.d. [1940s?]

Accounts for milk supplied, 4 September 1989f.

Ledger, 7 July 1925 - 30 August 1928

Audited profit and loss account of the Auckland Wholesale Meat Depot, 7 June 1926 - 11 June 1927, and balance sheet at 11 June 1927, 18 October 1927 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/54

Ledger account of Messrs. Gregory Bros. of Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, butchers, for meat and meat products supplied, 24 April 1928 - 11 July 1938

Journal, 7 July 1925 - 4 September 1928

Cash book, 7 July 1925 - 24 June 1929

Circular letter from J.G.L. Drummond, of the Hippodrome Picture House, Railway Street, Bishop Auckland, theatre and cinema proprietor and lessee, concerning proposals for improving business during the Christmas period, 19 December 1927 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/58

Petty cash book, 14 March 1927 - 26 October 1929

Petty cash accounts, 28 October 1929 - 15 February 1930 Originally enclosed in D/X 1086/59

Plan of Greenwell Ford Estate published by M. and M.W. Lambert of Newcastle, lithographers, 1847 Gives names of farms, occupiers, quantities and cultivation Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1 : 6336]

Ordnance Survey plan, 1st edition, 1 : 2500, sheet XVII.16, Kyo township including Longburn Head and Weardale extension of Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1859

Ordnance Survey plan, 1st edition, 1 : 2500, sheet XXV.3, Broomshields, East Broomshields, Pan Burn, Stow House and Lowgladdow Wood, [c.1856]

Ordnance Survey plan, 1st edition, 1 : 2500, sheet XXV.11, Cornsay township (pt.) including Black Moss, Black Prince Colliery, and Hedleyhope Colliery (Edward Pit), [c.1856] Endorsed: Henry Pickering, Hedley Hill

Ordnance Survey plan, 1st edition, 1 : 2500, sheet XXVI.5, Hazlet House, New Ivesley, Waterhouses Wood and Colliery, [c.1856]

Plans and sections of the proposed Deerness Valley Railway in the parish of Lanchester and chapelry of Esh printed by M. and M.W. Lambert of Newcastle, 1854 Scales: 10 chains to 1 inch [1 : 7920] 50 feet to 1 inch [1 : 600] 5 chains to 1 inch [1 : 3960] 40 feet to 1 inch [1 : 480]

Tracing of field plan of lands at Ivesley from the plan of the sale on 18 May 1773, of Brancepeth Castle estate, n.d. [mid 19th cent.] Gives field names and acreages Scale: 10 chains to 1 inch [1 : 7920]

Tracing of field plan of High Water House, Low Water |House and Standalone Farm, n.d. Gives field names and acreages Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1 : 6336]