Reference
CR/Q8
Title
Bundles of papers - including research notes/copies, some drafts and copies of commissioned statements relating to land legal research -externally commissioned - undertaken by the County Archivist Kevin Ward partly in his capacity as a Member of the Academy of Experts: registered area of expertise being the interpretation and analysis of historical documentation relating to the title, ownership and conveyancing of land and rights over land.
Scope and Content
Typical matters researched are the status of rights of way (public and private) over land, the ownership of the sub-soil of roads and tracks and rights of way over the same. There are also case relating to matters such as manorial waste, commons and village greens, ownership of land and third party rights (easements/wayleaves) and charges re same, ditches and boundaries - ownership and maintenance, village ponds, watercourses and culverts, rectorial estate and chancel repair liability, tithes and rent charge liability, churchyards, title to glebe, allotment land, and markets.
AT THE DISCRETION OF THE DUTY ARCHIVIST
Level of description
series