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Notes on the History of Ordsall Parish - 12 R.F. Wilkinson, Rector of Ordsall 1925-1941. From the pages of Ordsall Parish magazine. [Wilkinson index] [Previous] [Next] The full list of the Tithe Award by street is here. The Tithe AwardOrdsall Tithe Award consists of a large map, now in a somewhat dilapidated condition, dated 1839. This shows all the fields, houses and roads then existing. Each one is numbered and there are also a number of large parchment folios showing the owners and amount of acreage and tithe to be charged on each plot of land. Altogether there are 530 separate plots of land set out and a description of each is set out in seven columns namely, owner, occupier, number on plan, name and description of premises, state of cultivation, quantity, amount of tithe charged. Tithe on an acre of land seems to have been assessed at about 8/-, but it varied a good deal according to the position and cultivation. There were 102 separate owners of 1989 acres of land. The Tithe Act for conversion of the old system of collecting the tithe in kind from the various owners, was passed in 1836. The Ordsall apportionment was presented on May 15th and signed by the Tithe Commissioners on May 16th, 1840. The Agreement had been made on April 10th, 1838, so evidently it took two years to complete. The Rev. Francis Foxlow was Rector and received all the tithes, both great and small. The whole parish was said to contain by estimation 2001 acres, namely: ARABLE 811 acres; MEADOW 1090 acres; WOODLAND 100 acres. The woodland paid no tithe because it was grown for ornament or large timber, and had no underwood or annual fall. There were 27 acres of glebe land belonging to the Rectory, on which the tithe was dormant as the Rector did not pay it to himself. George Unwin of Whitwell was the Valuer and he also set forth the amount due to the Rector in Bushels of Wheat, Barley and Oats. The price per Bushel was at that time—Wheat 7/0¼ Barley 3/11½ , Oats 2/9. Owners of the land in Ordsall in 1840:
Articles of Agreement of the Commutation of the tithe of Ordsall Parish were drawn up at a meeting held in the School-House on March 31st, 1837. The Agreement was actually signed a year later in April, 1838. If we inspect the Tithe Map and the list of owners and occupiers, we can get some idea of what the parish must have been in that year. We shall naturally find a great change, and it is interesting to compare this description with the parish to-day, exactly one hundred years later. In the year that Queen Victoria was crowned the population was just over 800 and the number of houses 205. We do not know the exact number of houses to-day but there must be more than 1700, and the population is growing towards 7000. It is difficult to imagine that there were enclosed fields all the way between the Village and Dominie Cross. The houses were almost all situated in the Village or Thrumpton and White Houses, which were then small hamlets. All Hallows’ Street, High Street, Church Hill and Church Lane contained all the houses in Ordsall. There were a few at Thrumpton, where there was a large pond in the middle of the village green, which is now the School playground. The only street in South Retford was then Wright Wilson Street, which was the first sign of the expansion of the Borough beyond the old boundary of East Retford Parish at Dominie Cross. The Rectory had just been built a few years before and is shown with the garden and croft. Below the Churchyard the houses were very much as they are to-day. The full list of the Tithe Award by street is here. [Wilkinson index] [Previous] [Next]
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