• Reference
    SQ112
  • Title
    "A Survey of Basmead Manor and the Farm at Nether Staploe adjoining in the parish of Eaton Socon in the County of Bedford, belonging to Sir John Danvers, baronet, by Thomas Richardson, surveyor"
  • Date free text
    1763
  • Production date
    From: 1763 To: 1763
  • Scope and Content
    A thin volume, with 7 pages of description of John Pridmore's farm; the woods in hand; Samuel Foback's Farm; the Open Field lands, viz: Staploe Stocking and Sheep Penn Close, and lands in Staploe Field, Purr Croft, Seven Bush Field, Winyard Field, Ford Field, Eaton Backside Field, and the meadow [estimated and measured acreages and bounds given]; cottage and land in Nether Staploe in occupation of John Sheen; and cottage and land in Upper Staploe in occupation of George Bull. [total: 423 acres 2 roods 6 perches] Endorsed: "Survey of Basmead in 1763"
  • Level of description
    item