Cottage and Garth in White Sleights - Gate in Cow Close
Cottage and garth in White Sleights - Gate in Cow Close
One third of Norris Head, Blencon Fields, Millson’s Cottage
WILLAIM CASSE AND EDWARD KING
Turbury of that part of the Moor towards Hambleton
Rent £2 10s 0d - this to be every Martinmas
For Turbury of Two Riggs and half of Moor
Fairfax estate survey of 1694
Turbury was the right to take turf which was jealously protected by the Manor Courts.
The right to have a gate for a given number of cattle was still recorded in 1939.
The total area surveyed was approximately 924 acres compared with the 963 recorded in 1683 and the 1,080 recorded in the Domesday Survey. It is surprising to find the wide differences when individual rents are divided by the relevant acreages to arrive at a rough rent per acre and even after taking into account the probable different sizes of the dwellings it is difficult such variances. The acreages and rents per acre in pence are shown in the following table
