Catalogue description Land Tax Assessments, Castle Ward

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of G.TAX1
Reference: G.TAX1
Title: Land Tax Assessments, Castle Ward
Description:

G/TAX1/1 Minute book, 1842 - 1894 (1 volume)

 

G/TAX1/2/1-5 Appeal books, 1895 - 1942 (5 volumes)

 

G/TAX1/3/1-84 All Saints parish, 1833 - 1937 (84 files)

 

G/TAX1/4/1-79 Earsdon, 1833 - 1946 (79 files)

 

G/TAX1/5/1-82 Gosforth, 1833 - 1946 (82 files)

 

G/TAX1/6/1-79 Jesmond, 1833 - 1946 (79 files)

 

G/TAX1/7/1-83 Longbenton, 1833 - 1937 (83 files)

 

G/TAX1/8/1-75 Newburn, 1833 - 1936 (75 files)

 

G/TAX1/9/1-82 North Shields, 1833 - 1946 (82 files)

 

G/TAX1/10/1-87 St John's parish, 1833 - 1946 (87 files)

 

G/TAX1/11/1-84 Tynemouth Without, 1833 - 1946 (83 files)

 

G/TAX1/12/1-62 Wallsend, 1833 - 1913 (62 files)

 

G/TAX1/13/1-23 Tynemouth Within, 1833 - 1861 (23 files)

 

G/TAX1/14-16 Land Tax Redemption Certificates (3 files)

Date: 1833 - 1946
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Clerk of the Peace, Newcastle Castle Ward

Physical description: 14 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 23, 1596 (part), 1653

Selection and destruction information:

Collectors duplicates have been retained when the original assessment seems not to have survived.

Subjects:
  • Land tenure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Land Tax dates from 1692 and it was not abolished until as late as 1963. The returns are considered to be among the most important historical sources for tracing changes in the ownership and occupation of land. It was decided as early as 1698 that the tax should be levied as an assessment as opposed to a subsidy, a fixed sum was to be levied on the country as a whole. Each county was given as assessment that it had to meet, similar to a quota. The assessment was then divided amongst the townships and parishes within the county.

 

Initially when the Act was passed in 1692 its aim was to tax personal estate, public offices and land. On occasion taxes were paid on tithes and on some buildings but generally it was only landed property that was assessed.

 

Survival of these assessments before 1780 is rare but from 1832 most counties have a complete run. The assessments are considered to be of most use between 1780 - 1832, unfortunately the Castle Ward assessments only survive from 1833. After 1798 landowners were given the option to redeem the tax. By 1815 it is estimated that a third of land had been redeemed. For a number of years after 1798 landowners names remained on the assessments for voting purposes but after 1832 the number of names had started to fall.

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