Reference
WY942
Title
Landed Estate: Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire.
Five original bundles.
Date free text
1797-1920
Production date
From: 1797 To: 1920
Scope and Content
- Copy of Sutton Cheney Enclosure Act, 1797; correspondence relating to the benefice of Rev John Frederick Rowbotham. 1916-1917
- Correspondence regarding proposed hunting bridges and cleaning out of the Brook. 1910 - 1912; 1918.
- Correspondence regarding shooting rights let to Frank Goode & Charles Emery; includes reports of days shooting and zeppelin raids, and whether Knighton and Powell should enlist. 1915 - 1919.
- Sutton Cheney Vicarage: Dilapidations following death of Rev. William Crabbe; new agreement to let the property to the new incumbent, Edmund Christopher Hudson; repairs; corn rents; inhibition of Hudson for having contracted to marry a French lady while his wife was still alive [though his first wife had abandoned him]; whether Col. Stuart is bound to rent the property as the vicarage [he is not], neither is the incumbent obliged to occupy the property; whether Col. Stuart should convey the vicarage house to the ecclesiastical authorities; new incumbent Rev Duncan Charles McVarish. 1909 - 1914.
- Sutton Cheney School: Extension and alterations, including heating; application for grant; specification, estimates, contract, etc. Work delayed due to shortage of labour. 1917 - 1920.
Level of description
file