| Description | Comprising the estate and family papers of the Scholfields of Sand Hall.
Includes deeds and other documents relating to Asselby 1794; Balkholme 1861-1913; Bishopsoil 1767-1892 with enclosure act; Eastrington 1771; Howden 1748-1926 with references to Howden Church, Grammar School, Market Hall, Market Place, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Howden Batallion of East Yorkshire Regiment, Howden Water Company Ltd; North Duffield 1787-1958; Saltmarshe 1862-1904; Sandhall 1665-1937 with rentals and schedules of acreages for Sandhall Estate; Skelton 1554-1927 with extracts from the enclosure award; vestry book [1721-1893]; enclosure act [1809]; surveyors book; school receipt and payment book; papers concerning Skelton Bridge; Welton 1890-1905 with surveyors report on glebe lands; Airmyn (West Riding) 1632-1928 with papers concerning Lord Northumberland's building scheme to encourage the navigation; drainage of Little Airmyn Estate; Doncaster (West Riding) 1838-1916 with references to former site of St James Hospital, Doncaster Subscription Rooms; St George's Church; Drax (West Riding) 1888-1896 with on Drax manorial rents; Goole 1825-1913 comprising papers of Hook and Goole Feoffee Trust; Newland 1797-1922; Eastoft (Lincolnshire) 1837-1840 comprising papers concerning tithe apportionment, surveys and plans of Lovel grounds.
Personal and family papers of various members of the Scholfield family papers 19th century-20th; papers concerning the estates at Gunness and Messingham formerly part of the Faber estates 1798-1910; Paget family papers 1659-1936 incorporating documents concerning Hoon Hay Estate, Derbyshire and Chipping Norton Estate; Thomson family papers 1892-1926; Maltby Estate papers 1749-1936; Lister family papers 1641-1905; papers of Heber Percy of Hodnet Hall, Shropshire 1874-1932; papers relating to various family trusts 1817-1915.
Records concerning to farming and estate management mainly on Sandhall farm 1729-1945 also with 'Robert Spofforth's book 1729', 'Dr Scholfield's Estate Book' concerning Gunhouse and Messingham estates 1901-1908.
Papers relating to railways 1865-1912 with references to Derwent Valley Light Railway, North Eastern Railway Company, Selby and Goole Light Railway, South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company.
Papers relating to rivers, roads, ferries, staithes and banks 1726-1931 with Ouse Navigation Act [1726]; Ouse (Lower) Improvement Bill [1884]; bye laws for regulation of River Ouse [1886] and papers concerning Swinefleet Ferry and Booth Ferry; fisheries in River Ouse 1875-1890, banks, landing places and staithes 1870-1944 with request concerning celebration of Coronation at Sandhall; notes on manorial right to wrecks; River Derwent Navigation 1892-1893; River Aire and Dutch River 1818; shipwreck of vessel off Harwich 1842; maps and plans 1772-1943.
Miscellaneous documents 1705-1913 with 'The English Fencing-Master or the Compleat Tutor of the Small Sword' [published 1705]; copy of The Times containing dispatches concerning the Battle of Trafalgar; card of public speeches at Beverley Grammar School; drawings of Howden Church, Hemingbrough Church and picture of Wressle Castle.
Maps and plans 1772-1914 with plans of Airmyn 1815 and 1866, Garthorpe 1866 and Sand hall 1772, plan of township of North Duffield [1810].
Skelton Christian Science Society minute book, 1907-1916; Sandhall threshing book and tenants' coal book, 1931-1963; photocopy of tenancy agreement, 1832; photocopy of Sandhall rent book, 1873-1901 |