Catalogue description Land Tax Assessments, City Ward

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of G.TAX2
Reference: G.TAX2
Title: Land Tax Assessments, City Ward
Description:

G/TAX2/1/1-2 Minutes, 1853 - 1894 (2 Volumes)

 

G/TAX2/2/1-5 Appeal books, 1894 - 1950 (5 volumes)

 

G/TAX2/3/1-137 Pandon Quarter, All Saints Parish (137 files)

 

G/TAX2/7/1-163 Pilgrim Quarter, All Saints Parish

 

(163 Files)

 

G/TAX2/8/1-166 Sandgate Quarter, All Saints Parish

 

(166 Files)

 

G/TAX2/9/1-160 Sandhill Quarter, All Saints Parish

 

(160 Files)

 

G/TAX2/4/1-185 St Andrews Parish

 

(185 Files)

 

G/TAX2/5/1-137 St Johns Parish

 

(137 Files)

 

G/TAX2/6/1-160 St Nicholas Parish

 

(160 Files)

 

G/TAX2/10-15 Assessments for the City of Newcastle, 1701 - 1744

 

(7 Papers)

 

G/TAX2/16-17 Land Tax arrears in the City, 1742 - 1743

 

(2 Papers)

 

G/TAX2/18-23 Details of Land Tax Redemption in Newcastle, 1799 - 1847

 

(2 Papers, 3 files and 9 parchments)

 

G/TAX2/24 Abstract of Land Tax Act, c1742

 

(1 Paper)

 

G/TAX2/25-27 Papers concerning the Duke of Richmond's dispute over the payment of land tax, 1742 - 1743

 

(4 Papers)

 

G/TAX2/28 Case notes concerning various disputes relating to the Land Tax Assessments, 1731 - 1732

 

(2 Papers)

Date: 1701 - 1950
Related material:

For further information on the Land Tax Assessments see "The English Land Tax in the Eighteenth Century" by W R Ward and "Land and Window Tax assessments", Gibson Guide held in the searchroom library.

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

Clerk of the Peace, Newcastle City Ward

Physical description: 28 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 23 (part), 344, 1596 (part)

Selection and destruction information:

Collectors duplicates have been retained when the original assessment apprears 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 an 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.

 

The Newcastle City assessments are of particular importance since survival of these returns is generally rare before 1780. Unlike the Castle Ward assessments (see G/TAX1) the city ward returns consist of a complete run between 1780 - 1832, when the assessments are considered to be of the most use to researchers. From 1798 landowners were given an option to redeem the tax. By 1815 it is estimated that a third of all 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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