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Forest and Frith Civil Parish

Reference: CP/FF Catalogue Title: Forest and Frith Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1880-1965

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Forest and Frith Parish Council and predecessors (Ref: CP/FF 1-31)

Forest and Frith (or Forest and Ettersgill) was a township of Middleton in Teesdale Parish
- part of Teesdale Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- Civil Parish from 1866, with an elected council from 1894
- part of Teesdale Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- part of Teesdale Rural District 1894-1974
- part of Teesdale District 1974-2009

Minutes (Ref: CP/FF section 01)Ratepayers meeting minutes (Ref: CP/FF 1)

Minutes of meetings of ratepayers of the township of Forest and Frith, 1890 - 1894
(1 volume)

Parish Council minutes (Ref: CP/FF 2-3)

Parish Council Minutes, 1894 - 1923
(1 volume)


Parish Meeting minutes, 1894 - 1920
(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: CP/FF section 02)

4-5, 25-29


Treasurer's book, 1914 - 1960
(1 volume)


Financial Statements, 1897 - 1906, 1908, 1929
(1 bundle)


Collecting and deposit books, 1920 - 1922
(1 volume)


Collecting and deposit books, 1922 - 1925
(1 volume)


Receipt and payment accounts, 1896 - 1911
(1 volume)


Receipt and payment accounts, 1913 - 1914
(1 volume)


Receipt and payment accounts, 1933 - 1965
(1 volume)

Rate books (Ref: CP/FF section 03)

6-24


Rate book, 1880 - 1883
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1883 - 1891
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1885 - 1888
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1888 - 1891
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1891 - 1892
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1893 - 1895
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1895 - 1896
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1897 - 1899
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1899 - 1900
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1903 - 1904
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1904 - 1905
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1905 - 1906
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1906
(1 volume)


Rate books, 1907
(2 volumes)


Rate books, 1922
(2 volumes)


Rate book, 1923
(1 volume)


Rate book, 1924
(1 volume)

Overseers of the poor, including rates and valuation (Ref: CP/FF section 04)

30


Notices of appointment of overseers (Barnard Castle Union), 1895 - 1908, 1922 - 1923; overseers' balance sheets, 1900 - 1901, 1922 - 1925; Rate Collector's Monthly Statement, 1923 - 1924; statement of accounts of poor house property, 1898, supplemental valuation list, 1899, amendment of valuation list, 1907
(1 bundle)

Correspondence (Ref: CP/FF section 05)

31


Correspondence: re poor house at Middleton-in-Teesdale, 1893 Complaint by Lord Barnard re rating assessment, 1895 - 1896; re postal facilities in the parish, 1898 - 1900 (including accounts with Post Office for telegrams, 1902 - 1908 and agreement with G.P.O. re establishment of telegraph office at Harwood, 1909); with Local Government Board re parish council accounts, 1899 - 1900; re local fair, 1900 - 1902; miscellaneous correspondence re use of reading room at Forest in Frith, water supply and resignation from council, 1894 - 1900
(1 bundle)