1863 Tenants of Well Green

The Green (Well Green) in 1863

In 1863 James Thorpe of Beaconfield (Coddington Hall) bought the farm/maltings complex and a number of cottages on The Green from Edward Chivers Bower of Tickhill Castle York for ?11,500. Some parts  were freehold and some were copyhold status.

Surviving deeds show a plan of the Green at that time, listing all the tenants. This also confirms the order in which the census enumerator walked around this area on census night 1861.

1863   Freehold Parts of Estate		1863  Copyhold Parts of Estate
No on plan	Tenant / Occupant	No on plan	Tenant / Occupant
2	John Fryer – tenant	1	John Fryer – tenant
2a	Joseph Staniland	1a	John Roberts
3a	Mary Hall	1b	John Birkett
3b	Gibbons Southerington
3c	Thomas Southerington
3d	William Smalley
3e	William Hunt
3f	Henry Hart
3g	James Hall

By comparing this plan with the one in the 1918 Estate Sale Catalogue (which was based on the 1900 Ordnance Survey Map) we can see that the area hadn’t changed much over that time.