Almost nothing remains today of Nowhere Lane apart from an ashphalt drive leading from St. Margarets Hill to the back garden of Shrapnell House(7 St. Margarets Street).Although a hundred years ago there was a narrow line of 8 cottages on the East side of it. Fortunately a photograph(see below) has survived showing how it looked in 1880 with its series of gabled roofs.
GEORGE SNAILUM & SONS are instructed to SELL by AUCTION,
at the NEW BEAR HOTEL, BRADFORD-ON-AVON,
on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1899, at Six for Seven o` clock in the evening
(subject to such Conditions as will be then and there produced ) the under-mentioned
FREEHOLD PROPERTIES,
in the Parish of Bradford-on-Avon, namely:-
Lot 1 - SIX STONE-BUILT TENEMENTS (unoccupied and in ruins)
with the outbuildings, yards, and Premises, numbered and being
8 to 13 inclusive, St. Margaret's Hill.
The Lot has a frontage to Nowhere Lane of about 95 feet.
This lot will be sold for the remainder of the term for which the same is held
(which is supposed to be 1,000 years) and subject to any ground
or other rent payable in respect thereof.
1841
Census and Tithe map for Nowhere Lane
In
1841 The buildings that make up No Where Lane are under different ownership as
follows:
484 - The building on the corner of Nowhere lane and St. Margaret`s
Hill is owned by John Smith
485 - a group of 5 cottages along Nowhere
Lane is owned by Anne Rayner, Widow who is living at 11 St Margarets Street (now
Green House Health Practise)
486 - This cottage in Nowhere Lane is owned
by Thomas Spackman Junior.
487 - The cottage in Nowhere Lane is owned
by Isaac Green
488 - The group of 3 cottages in the corner of the garden
of Shrapnell House is owned by General Henry Shrapnel
489 - The group
of cottages is owned by John Blackmore.
Below are the 1841 Census records
for the Lane showing the large number of people occupying the small cottages.
480 James Fricker Briscomb House
481& 482 Shrapnell Wilshire & Others 3 Tenements
483 & 484 John Smith George Cook & others 4 Tenements
485 James Fricker Robbins & others 4 Tenements
485 James Fricker Hancock & others 2 Tenements
486 & 487 John Smith Hodges Candle Manufactory
488 Shrapnell Fricker Old Building included with
489 Miss Wastfield Webb, Selby & others 5 Tenements
490 Elizabeth Deverell E. Deverell House
490 Elizabeth Deverell Milsom & others 3 Tenements
"In St Margaret`s Street, Morgan`s Hill and Nowhere Lane in Bradford aforesaid and now in the Occupation of Renting of the widow Baily, Issac Gibbs, Thomas Brown, Dr. Browne (Apothecary) James Mead, William Gerrish, Thomas Paul John Holbrook, Widow Dicks(?) and .. sevrerall Orchard to hold the said Messuages or tenements with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said Richard Attwood and Joseph Smith and their heirs to the several .. But unto and purposes here in after particularly mentioned limited expressed and declared of and containing.. (that is to say) to the use of my said daughter Elizabeth Warren"
9th October 1866. By Indenture of this date made between Henry Fricker of the Parish of Bradford in Count)-of Wiltshire Painter and Glazier of 1st part Eliza Sedgcbeer of Orchardleigh in county of Somerset, widow of 2nd Part Edmond George Fricker of Beckington in said county of Somerset, Painter and Glazier & James Augustus Fricker of Rode in said County of Somerset, Painter & Glazier of third part. Reciting that a marriage was intended to be solemnized between said Henry Fricker & E. Sedgebeer & upon treat)' for same it had been agreed that the several goods, chattels & premises should be conveniently assigned to said Edmund George Fricker & Julius Augustus Fricker their heirs, executors and assignees in manner mentioned upon & for the trusts intents & purposes declared concerning same. Here follows witnessed in ... aforesaid Henry Fricker did thereby assign unto said Edmund George Fricker and Julius Augustus Fricker their exs., adds & ass's. First all those 5 cottages or tenements now occupied as 6 cottages or tenements situated lying and being in "Nowhere Lane", Morgans Hill in said parish of Bradford & where were on 1841 Tythe Map of Said Parish with the No. 485.
on the 28th January 1959 Miss Hignell purchases two pieces of land at Nowhere lane from L.P.T. Hill of 14 St. Margarets Street for £25
On the 13th December 1966 Miss Elizabeth Hignell conveyed to the Council the piece of land coloured pink
All that piece or parcel of void ground being the site of 3 messuages formerly in the occupation of Thomas Brown, widow Baily and Haar Gibbs and afterwards of William Holbrook and William Hanny. But now untenanted the tenements formerly standing thereon having sometime fallen down and also that messuage in St. Margarets Street formerly occupied by Ebenezer Brown Apothecary, now by Joseph Mundy and also that messuage in No Whers Lane formerly occupied by Thgomas Crook and also that messuage in Morgans Hill formerly in occupation of William Gerrish afterwards and of late by Jane Abrahams and that messuage in Morgans Hill in occupation of Thomas Paul afterwards of James Mead and now Nathaniel (?) Mead and also those 3 messuages adjoining each other on Morgan`s Hill formerly in occupation of Jane Sara Orchard, John Holbrook and Widow Dicks (?) and now of John Gibbs, Jane Green and Joanna Piles and all houses, outhouses … Zacahriah Shrapnel Warren said John Lutin as tenant.
The
Buildings that were built along Nowhere Lane and St. Margarets Hill by Zachariah
Shrapnel at the end of the 17th Century after he inherited Shrapnell House with
its extensive Grounds. They are built at a boom time in Bradford when population
grows from 2625 in 1690 to 4110 by 1710 (Jones Bradford page 64) and a similar
development occurs along the Tory by the Metheuns. Zachariah leaves 6 of these
houses to his son and issues 1,000 year lease to a number of other parcels of
land that are later built on.
The Land Tax Assessments for the borough show
Zachariah Shrapnell III assessed on lands of £24, paying £4-16-09
(in 1782), he died in 1796 and Mrs Shrapnell was the owner the following year,
but she also died that year of 1797. In 1798 the properties are shown divided
between Henry Shrapnell Esq ., and the Rev. Warren paying £2-10-9d each.
Zachariah
Sahrapnel III`s Will of 1794 shows him splitting his St. Margaret's Hill Property
in two with part going to his son General Henry Shrapnel and the other to his
daughter Elizabeth who was married to Rev. William H Warren in 1794.
Nowhere
Lane leads originally to the rear of Rialtos and could have continued on to St.
Margaret's Street through this building which in 1864 as 2 separate parts (t/n.
453 & 454).Part 454 appears in the 1837 Map of Bradford to have access of
the lane according to the auction description:
……and the House occupied
by Mr. C. Long contains a Front Sitting Room, large Kitchen, and 4 Bedrooms over.
There is a capital Pump and Well of Water on the premises, and a back entrance
and right of way, from No-where Lane (Tolley Auction1865 ).
Another possibility
is an access through t/no. 455 (bindings), which was originally a 3 gabled building
the side entrance, is still incorporated into the frontage.
Tithe No. 488 building
in corner of Garden of Shrapnell House
Nowhere Lane also leads to t/n. 488
another 3 gabled property similar to Shrapnell and Wastfield House built by Zachariah
Shrapnel I c.1690 along with other buildings on the Hill. Described in Zachariah
Shrapnel III's Will of 1794 as:
…..Also all that Messuage or Tenement
Situate at the Bottom of a place called "Nowhere Lane" in Bradford aforesaid
with the New Building adjoining and Appurtenances belonging now in the occupation
and renting of Richard Sheppard
The 1840 record book for the Tithe Map reveals
that it is subdivided into 3 houses
belonging to General Henry Shrapnell and
occupied by Robert Smith, Samuel Hedges, Fred Frankling, James Grinell The 1841
Census provides further details about these tenants who must have squeezed into
such a small building.
Smith Robert 25 Ag .Labourer 488(i) No Where Lane
Smith
Ann 25 No Where Lane
Smith John 5 No Where Lane
Smith Elizabeth 10 months
No Where Lane
Hedge Samuel 65 488(ii) No Where Lane
Hedge Charlotte 60 No
Where Lane
Hedge Mary 15 No Where Lane
Frankling Frederick 20 Maltster 488(iii)
No Where Lane
Frankling Leah 25 Dress Maker No Where Lane
Frankling Jevis
7 No Where Lane
Frankling William 5 No Where Lane
Grinnell James 60 Sawyer
488(iv) No Where Lane
Grinnell Elizabeth 66 No Where Lane.
It formed a separate
unit from Shrapnell House and was only added to this property when both properties
were purchased by Henry Fricker in 1858. He used them as a workshop and later
leased them to Charles Long the Builder.
The entry on the Mortgage deed of
1868 is as follows:
….. and also all those workshops with the land, outbuildings
and erections and premises belonging thereto adjoining the last described hereditaments
leading out into Nowhere Lane and numbered 488 and the said Tithe Map and in the
said Book of Reference therefore said stated 8 perches and which said workshops
formally consisted of three cottages or tenements but have recently been converted
into workshops by the said Henry Fricker and which are now in or lately was in
his possession and part of the same in the occupation of Charles Long Builder.
Charles
is a stone mason renting 9 St. Margaret's Street (Rialto) and is the son of William
Long who is shown living with his family in part of Shrapnel House in 1841 . It
is probably during his occupancy that Henry Fricker purchases part of t/n 455
to extend his garden.
T/N.
489 Wastfield House (2/3 & 4,5 St. Margaret's Hill.)
(no. 3)was this the
entrance to Chapel
All those two Messuages numbers 2/3 and 4/5 St. Margaret's
hill formerly 4 messuages known as 5, 6,6a and 7 St. Margaret's Hill
1932 Albert
Long ( living in Shrapnel House at this time) purchased property
T/N.
486,487 2 Cottages bottom of Nowhere Lane (6, 7 St. Margaret's Hill.)
487 in 1962 has a 1000 year Z. Shrapnell lease, whilst 486 is probably part of 451(Saxty`s) property and could be originally belong to Monkton Farleigh Priory and
T/N.
485 (8,9,10,11,12,13 St. Margaret's Hill.)
Abstract of Title of Messrs H.E.&S.A.
Fricker to nos 8 to 13 (inclusive) St. Margarets Hill, Bradford on Avon. (1899)
9th
October 1866
……first all those 5 cottages or tenements now occupied
as 6 cottages or tenements situated lying and being in "Nowhere Lane",
Morgans Hill in said parish of Bradford & where were on 1841 Tythe Map of
Said Parish with the No. 485.
Secondly all that plot of ground sited in "Nowhere Lane", Morgans Hill in said parish of Bradford with the messuages or tenements therein erected & built.
SALE
TUESDAY NOV. 14 1899
MR. HENRY FRICKER deceased.
Lot 1 - SIX STONE-BUILT
TENEMENTS (unoccupied and in ruins) with the outbuildings, yards, and Premises,
numbered and being 8 to 13 inclusive, St. Margaret's Hill.
The Lot has a frontage
to Nowhere Lane of about 95 feet.
This lot will be sold for the remainder of
the term for which the same is held (which is supposed to be 1,000 years) and
subject to any ground or other rent payable in respect thereof.
T/N.
484 Garage (next to 6 St. Margaret's Hill.)
Deeds for Garage (484) G13/150/20
Lease
5 Sept, 1692, for consideration Grant to Edward Deverell of Bradford , Rough Mason
all that cottage or dwelling house
1692 between Z. Shrapnell 1st part and George
Lowell other part...goes on to describe land of 105feet on the North Side rangeth
from Westside of 6 (16/17) St. Margarets Hill to the Orchard Wall thereof of said
Zachariah Shrapnell (term of 1,000 years)… & where as
By indenture
of lease 5th May 1697 Zachariah Shrapnell 1st part and Richard Gardener other
part.
All that new erected Messuage, tenemant 35 feet in length and 201/2
feet in breadth situate and being in Bradford adjoining to the Orchard of said
Z. Shrapnell on the north- east side thereof to the way enjoyed in common between
Zachariah Shrapnell and Richard Gardener and their tenants on the south &
near and adjoining to the Tenement of William Wastfield an the south west side
, there of and about 27 feet in length on South west Corner of said Tenement(484)
& running even there with down towards the said William Wastfield's House
there being only a way 6 feet wide to part the same from the ground granted to
William Wastfield (489?) (No Where Lane)
1727 Thomas Burgis of Trowbridge,
Richard Hawkins, Zachariah Shrapnell, late of Bradford, Clothier, Lease 5 Sept,
1692, for consideration Grant to Edward Deverell of Bradford , Rough Mason all
that cottage or dwelling house, wherein he dwelt on land called "the Halfe"
and 26 feet of 1/2 in length lands of Richard Gardner…
This Indenture
made the thirteenth day of December 1915, between Arthur Edward Scrope Shrapnel
of 18 High Street, Harbone, Birmingham in the county of Warwick, Motor Mechanic
of one part and Thomas Andrews of 41 Castle Street, Trowbridge in the County of
Wilts. Engineer of the other part Whereas the said Arthur Edward Scrope Shrapnel
iss seized of the lands. Messuages, heridiaments and premises described in the
Schedule hereto subject to the Lease or respoective leases hereafter mentioned
and to he term of years thereby created and is possessed of and otherewise well
and sufficiently entitled to the quit or ground rents issuing and payable out
of the same lands, messuages , herediaments and premises whereas the said Thomas
Andrews is possessed of an otherewise entitled to the messuages, herediaments
and premises described in the first part of the schedule for the unexpired residue
of the terms of 1,000 years subject to the annual rents od o£1 and £1
10s. Reserved by indentures of lease dated respectively 1st February, 1695 and
5th May, 1697, and of the messuages described in the second part of the said schedule
for the unexpired residue of a term of 1,000 years created by the Indenture of
a lease dated 22nd October, 1689 ….. And whereas the said Arthur Edward Scrope
Shrapnel has agreed with the said Thomas Andrews for the sale to him of the reversion
of the said Lands, Messuages, Hereidiaments and premises and of the said rents
issuing thereto of the price or sum of £30
Schedule referred to First
Part
T/N.
453 & 454 Rialto (9, 10 St. Margaret's Street.)
Auction 19th December 1865
FREEHOLD
DWELLING-HOUSE (now Rialto)
With the Yard, Tallow Chandler's Shop, and Outhouses
at the rear thereof, situate in St. Margaret Street, Bradford, aforesaid, occupied
by MR. THOMAS SMART, Grocer and Tallow Chandler, and MR. CHARLES LONG, Builder.
The house occupied by Mr. Smart comprises a Front Shop, large Sitting Room, Wash-
house
and Scullery, with 3 front and 1 back Bedrooms, and there is a Tallow Chandler's
Boiling House, and Candle or Store Room in the Yard at the rear; and the House
occupied by Mr. C. Long contains a Front Sitting Room, large Kitchen, and 4 Bedrooms
over.
There is a capital Pump and Well of Water on the premises, and a back
entrance and right of way, from No-where Lane
T/No.451
14a St. Margaret's Street.
…. to this day certain property in the town
of Bradford is held under the Manor of Monkton Farleigh. A field called I the
Conigre,'(one of several pieces of ground bearing that name in the parish) just
behind the house occupied by Mr. Adye, in Woolley street, and some houses in St.
Margaret street, nearly opposite the present Railway Station, are still held under
leases granted by the lessee of "the Manor of Monkton Farleigh and Cumberwell,"
as it is termed.(from Jones's History of Bradford on Avon.)
…Besides the mesne Lords of Manors in the Hundred of Bradford, there were others who, though not exercising any jurisdiction within the Hundred demanded fealty, and perhaps rather more substantial acknowledgements, from some of the tenants within the domain of our Abbess, The Manor of Cumberwell, for example, was held under the Barony of Castle Coqlbe, and Humphrey de Lisle (Hunfredus de Insula) the Lord of that Manor claimed from the tenant at Cumberwell-(in early times one named Pagen)-suit and service for the same The Prior of Monkton Farleigh, moreover, who held the Lordship of that Manor, claimed payment for lands in this parish
W.R.O.
ref. 1837/1 - date: 1820-1936
Deeds relating to properties in Morgans Hill,
Nowhere Lane and St. Margaret's Street adjoining the Particular Baptist Chapel,
Bradford-on-Avon, formerly part of the Bishoprick estates of the Manor of Monkton
Farleigh and Cumberwell.
abstract from one of the many deeds to this property:
….
This Indenture made the 14thNovember 1823 between Zachariah Shrapnell Warren of
Oakham in the County of Rutland Clerk… Gentleman of the second part and John
Lukin of Grays Inn Square in… that for ..Estates of and in the … and
all reversions and remainders thereupon expectant and expecting and…Shrapnell
Warren in hand paid by the said John Lukin at or before the sealing and delivery
of those present .. whereas is hereby acknowledged by the said Zachariah Shrapnell
Warren hath granted bargained sold ..released conveyed and confirmed and by those
present Doth grant bargain sell allow release convey and confirm unto the said
John Lukin and his heirs ( in the actual possessions of the said John Lukin now
being by virtue of a bargain .. sale to him thereof made by the said Zachariah
Shrapnell Warren in consideration of 5 shillings by Indenture bearing date the
day before the date of those present for one whole year remaining from the day
next before the day of the same Indenture or Bargain and sale and by force of
the statute made by transferring .. into possession
All those messuages or
tenements situate and being in St. Margaret's Street, Morgan's Hill and Nowhere
Lane in Bradford in the said County of Wiltshire and which are now better known
and distinguished as All that piece or parcel of void ground being the .. three
messuages or tenements and gardens formerly in the occupation of Thomas Brown,
Widow Baily and Isaac Gibbs and afterwards of William Holbrook and William Hanny
(now Bindings). But now untenanted the tenements formerly standing thereon that
having sometime fallen down.
and also all that messuage or tenement yard garden
and appurtenants in said Saint Margaret's Street aforesaid formerly occupied by
Ebenezer Brown, Apothecary and now by Joseph Mundy
and also that Messuage
or tenement situate in Nowhere Lane aforesaid formerly occupied by James Mead
and now or late by Malachi Mead
and also all that Messuage or Tenement in
Morgan's Hill aforesaid formerly in the occupation of … William Gerrish ..
afterwards and late of same by Jane Abrahams …..
also all that messuage
.. aforesaid formerly in the occupation of Thomas Paul afterwards of James Mead
and now of …… mall..
and all those 3 messuages or tenements near
adjoining each other on Morgans Hill aforesaid formerly in the occupation of Jane
Sarah Orchard, John Holbrook and Widow Dicks and now of John Gibbs, James Green
and Joanna Piles.
an abstract from Zachariah Shrapnell's III `s Will 1794:
…In
St Margaret's Street, Morgan's Hill and Nowhere Lane in Bradford aforesaid and
now in the Occupation of Renting of the widow Baily, Issac Gibbs, Thomas Brown,
Dr. Browne (Apothecary) James Mead, William Gerrish, Thomas Paul John Holbrook,
Widow Dicks(?)
947/1472
John Long of Tilshead Ldge & Joseph Mundy of
Bradford Clothier , 1820 granted by Rev. Zachariah Shrapnell Warren of Oakham
, Rutland 20 year lease sum of £4 formerly in the possession of William
Hood, but now in possession of Robert Barton N. Side and a house formerly in possession
of Ebenezer Brown now Joseph Mundy on or towards south part , rent of 2/- to John
Long suit & service to court of John Long kept in Manor of Monkton Farleigh
and Cumberwell.
Holbrook John (Warren) House 2-6d
Townsend Betty (Mr Scotcher) House 2-6d
Raike George (Mr Scotcher) House 2-6d
Humphries O. (.. Jones) House 3-9d(t.no.484)
Wyatt Thomas (.. Jones) House 2-6d(t.no.484)
Mitchell Ann (.. Jones) House 2-6d(t.no.484)
Rose William (.. Jones) House 2-6d(t.no.484)
Williams Thomas (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Halliday John (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Alderwick Betty (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Pitman Henry (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Howell John (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Moore Abraham (Mrs Rayner) House 2-6d(t.no.485)
Symes James (Late James Taylor) House 2-6d(t.no.486)
Mead James (Warren) House 2-6d House 2-6d(t.no.487)
Withers Henry (Colonel Shrapnel) House 2-6d(t.no.488)
Green Joseph (Colonel Shrapnel) House 2-6d(t.no.488)
Hancock William (Colonel Shrapnel) House 2-6d(t.no.488)
Thrush (?) Thomas (late Jelly) House 2-6d(t.no.489)
Tuck Thomas (late Jelly) House 2-6d(t.no.489)
Hulbert James (late Jelly) House 2-6d(t.no.489)
Abrahams James (Warren) House 2-6d(t.no.489)
Mead James (Warren) House 2-6d
Land Tax 1815
Holbrook John (Warren) House 3-9d
Townsend Betty
(Ann Scotcher) House3s-9d
Raike George (Ann Scotcher) House 3s-9d
George
Chapman. (Rees Jones) House 5-7d(t.no.484)
Wyatt Thomas (Rees
Jones) House 1-10d(t.no.484)
Mitchell Ann (Rees Jones) House
3s-9d (t.no.484)
Hillier Thomas (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Halliday John (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Alderwick
Betty (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Pitman Benjamin(Mrs
Rayner) House3s-9d (t.no.485)
Moore Abraham (Mrs Rayner) House
3s-9d (t.no.485)
Howell John (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Symes Mary (Mary Thomas) House 3s-9d (t.no.486)
Mead James (Warren)
House House 3s-9d (t.no.487)
Withers Betty(Henry Shrapnel) House
3s-9d (t.no.488)
Keevil Joseph (Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d
(t.no.488)
Asher...... (Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Marchant George (Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Bradfield
James (Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Land
Tax 1827
Townsend Betty (Ann Scotcher) House3s-9d
Raike George
(Ann Scotcher) House 3s-9d
Self George. (Rees Jones) House 5-7d(t.no.484)
....................... (Rees
Jones) House 1-10d(t.no.484)
........................(Rees Jones)
House 3s-9d (t.no.484)
Kitchen Henry(Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d
(t.no.485)
.......................... (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d
(t.no.485)
Hodges Robert(Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
..........................(Mrs Rayner) House3s-9d (t.no.485)
Holloway John (Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Ash William
(Mrs Rayner) House 3s-9d (t.no.485)
Chapman Thomas(Spackman
Thomas) House 3s-9d (t.no.486)
Green Issac(Green Issac) House
House 3s-9d (t.no.487)
Baily Samuel (Henry
Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Howell James(Henry Shrapnel)
House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Morris William(Henry Shrapnel) House
3s-9d (t.no.488)
Allen John(Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
Harding Abraham (Henry Shrapnel) House 3s-9d (t.no.488)
...........................(Mrs Rayner) House 2s-10d (t.no.485)
Ladd William(Mrs Rayner) House 2s-10d (t.no.485)
Bachelor.....(Mrs Rayner) House 2s-10d (t.no.485)
Holloway John (Mrs Rayner) House 2s-10d (t.no.485)
Ash William (Mrs Rayner) House 2s-10d (t.no.485)
Bray James(Spackman Thomas) House 2s-10d (t.no.486)
Green Issac(Green Issac) House House 2s-10d (t.no.487)
Baily Samuel (Henry Shrapnel) House 2s-10d (t.no.488)
Howell James(Henry Shrapnel) House 2s-10d (t.no.488)
Morris William(Henry Shrapnel) House 2s-10d (t.no.488)
Allen John(Henry Shrapnel) House 2s-10d (t.no.488)
Harding Abraham (Henry Shrapnel) House 2s-10d (t.no.488)
The properties in the Lane were no.7 (960) a part of T.N. 489.
That are erected in the period after 1689 to 1692 a lease dated 3rd August 1692 from Zachariah Shrapnell to John Taylor and assigned to him by William Wastfield on 25th April 1694, and then a new lease from Zachariah Shrapnell to William Wastfield on 3rd February 1695(1696).
That refers to Cottage or Tenement (960) and the garden on which it stood 60 feet long by 16 Feet in breadth, the ground adjoined that of Jacob Silby and Richard Godby and was part of the Orchard of Zachariah Shrapnell.
The corner plot opposite (960) eventually had a house built on it (971) sometime after the 5th May 1697, the size of that ground was 27 feet and I assume the same depth as shown on the 19th Century Maps of 20 ½ feet.
Tithe no. 484
Tithe no. 484 covered the plot and the house on the plot 35 feet by 35 feet down to 12 feet wide as shown on the 1885 Ordnance Survey Map.
The description of the plot 971 adjoined William Wastfield's property except for the way of 6 feet wide (the start of the lane) to part the same.
The land adjoining (971 and the gardens of 972 and 973 T.N. 484) was T.N. 485.
We do not know when they were erected, but as they passed from Richard Gardiner to Mr. Arny at 1 1/2d of assessment in the Poor Rate Book, they could be part of the 2d. Assessment of Richard Gardiner in 1702.
So I assume Richard Gardener either leased that 95 feet long plot from Zachariah Shrapnell or he assigned it to Richard Gardiner with houses already erected between the 5th May 1697 and the start of the Poor rate Book in 1702.
The Land Tax Assessment for Tithe number 485 in 1773/4 was £3 lands and not identified with occupiers until owned by Samuel Rayner amongst all his properties in the Church Rate Book 1804-1805 at 6 houses at 1/4d each to equal 1 1/2d some of the tenants still there in 1808 when they appear to have been re-valued at 1/2d each.
1837 numbered 966, 967, 968, 969 and 970 the parts at the rear of 968 not shown on maps until the 1885 Ordnance Survey Map, in the Tithe Award Schedule also described as 5 Tenements Tithe No. 485.
In 1884 given the numbers used in the 1891 Census no. 8 to no. 13 and so were described in the 1864 Town Survey as 4 houses and 2 houses equals the six numbers 8 to 13.
The house on plot tithe no. 486 (965) we so far can only trace back to about 1761 - 1762 Robert Cooper assessed at 1/2d was that the other 1/2d part of Richard Gardiner's 2d in 1702? Or was it part of some one else's total assessment in 1702?
The house on plot tithe no. 487 (964) could be 1/2d of the 3f of Poor Rate belonging to the Kendall's in 1702 as it seems likely they were all late 17th century houses, that 3d.taken over by Zachariah Shrapnell II (nephew of Zachariah Shrapnell. Died 1723) from Widow Kendall in the 1740`s.
We know very few people lived in the same house from 1841 to 1881, but the part time chapel caretaker Thomas Steven's a Cloth worker occupied 1003. no. 68 in 1891 in St. Margaret's or Morgan's Hill for that 40 year + period.
As you will know from your copies of the 1841 and 1851 Census those living there from 960 (to possibly 961) and 962, 963, 964, 965 and 966 to 970 and ending with971 had a variety of occupations some naturally still connected to the Cloth Industry.
Only about two families there in 1841 were still there in 1851 and also in 1861 and its not easy to decide or work out if they remained in the same houses, but one of them was not actually in the lane but in part of those comprising tithe no. 489.
So John and Emma Holloway he aged 55 a Gardener and she was 50 a Burler and their 9 children in 1841 in one of those houses comprising 485.possibly 968 or 967, were at Schedule no. 133 in 1851 he was 60 and Emma 58, he was from Westbury and all the rest of the family born in Bradford.
Also still there from 1841 was the Widow of Isaac Green at Schedule no. 136 with the Burcombe family in her house 487 (964), and the Widow of George Baker, Hannah in the house adjoining the Self's in 489 possibly she was in 957 and George Self in 958. 1891 no.4 and 5.
In 1861 the Enumerator followed the same route coming down the Lane John Holloway was then 79 at Schedule no. 69, his Widow Emma was still in that row of houses in 1871 at Schedule no. 150 (section) no. 13b aged 87 years with two of their unmarried sons William aged 35 and John 30 following their fathers occupation as gardeners.
There were only about 7 houses occupied in the Lane part of Morgan's Hill in 1861 possibly from Schedule no. 67 to 71 was Tithe no. 485 and that latter one had Schedule no. to 75 for Lodgers in Lucy Lippetts home no. 71 and George Self was at Schedule 78 and Thomas Steven's at no. 82. Benjamin Silby or Selby was at Schedule no. 79 possibly in 957.
The two of them were still at no. 489 in 1871 Schedule nos. 20 George Self & his wife Ann 80 and 77 she was blind. He was or had been a watchman at a cloth factory and at no. 21 Benjamin Silby aged 73 a Cloth worker and his wife Eliza 54
note 1864 survey for 489 included ____ Selby and others.
Thomas Stevens was at Schedule no.26.
Actually living in the Lane in 1871 were about the same as 1861 Seven families including the Holloway family the occupations Agricultural Labourers and another Gardener and one or two cloth workers.
Stephen Wheeler aged 47 born in Hawkridge a Labourer and his wife Sarah born in Wales were in Tithe no. 485 row probably in 967 or 968 and 3 children and he was still in that area in 1881, but probably in 489 959 no. 6.
In 1881 only about 4 families were in the lane part of Morgan's Hill in schedule nos, 47 to 50 and at no. 46 971 on the corner or (on the Hill) Arthur Jones a 29 year old Tiler and Plasterer followed by no. 47 James Laycock aged 57 an Agricultural Labourer and wife Harriet and 5 children either in 970 no. 13 or 966 no. 8 because in 1891 he and his family were at no. 8 St. Margaret's Hill. It depends where the enumerator went in 1881 after 971 (no. 14). Did he walk to the bottom of No Where Lane to 47 and then back up to 48, 49 and 50 John Lintern Head Married aged 40, a Canal Navigator (a Boatman) born in Turleigh. Then 5 unoccupied to no. 51 . The home of Stephen Wheeler probably in 959 (no.6), then one unoccupied (958) no.5 ? Schedule no.52 probably (957 no. 4) Frances Hopkins a Widower aged 40 a Dye House man born at Beckington and 2 sons born here in Bradford.
Three more Schedule nos. 53 to 55 probably in tithe no. 490 still described in 1864 as a House & (three Tenements 953, 954 and 955) then at Schedule no. 56 Thomas Stevens at 1003 (no.68)
In the 1891 Census only 5 or 6 houses were occupied in No Where Lane part of St. Margaret's Hill, the Enumerator starting for the first time at the corner of tithe no. 490 and at no. 4 or 489 (957) was Stephen Wheeler, wife and Grandson.
In the Lane at no. 7 using 3 rooms was William Dobson aged 40 born at Box, Agricultural Labourer and his wife Elizabeth aged 57 and 2 children all born here in Bradford. As I have said James Laycock at no. 8 and at no. 9 Alfred Bainton and his wife Elizabeth 26 and 29 and 4 children all born here in Bradford he was a Boot maker, sharing? Their house at 9A using 3 rooms was George Davis a Widower 68 a General Labourer.
No. 10 was using 4 rooms Ann Norris a married Charwoman aged 70 and her son John 21 an Ag. Lab. And Sarah 23 worked in a Shoddy Mill (Wool) her daughter.
No.11 & 12 unoccupied and the last house occupied was no. 13 using 4 rooms James Lock 26 and his wife Annie 25 he worked on the Railway (Carter) born in Exeter, his wife and children and a brother-in-law and sister-in-law married to each other I think.
A photograph from the Wiltshire Times? shows no. 7 (960) had a door way on St. Margaret's Hill and was 3 storey with the Gable end opposite to the one shown on Gareth's drawing of that lane on (960). Only that house was being lived in at the time of the 1901 Census, William Dobson & family. Neil if you look at the photographs that you have taken of the Church Rate Book (and the Land Tax Assessment which I hope you have for the years 1784 and 1785), you will find the name of the owner in 1785 but not there in 1784.
As I told you it was James Warren Esq. Or Mr. Warren on the various ways that name was spelt, the occupier from 1785 was a Roger Smith as you will also see from the 1791 directory he had moved on to the seven Stars in Newtown when the ownership changed to the Sheppard family.
I assume that James Warren was the same James Warren of Walcot, Bath in Somerset together with Daniel Clutterbuck of Bradford Leigh that were appointed trustees for the marriage settlement of Thomas Todd of the General Post Office, London to Elizabeth Baskerville, daughter of Thomas of the Grange in Woolley Green 1782 circa.
In the Land Tax Assessment for 1785 his assessment was on £3 lands and in the Church rate Book 1784 - 87 2 1/2d. so if you have the Land tax Assessment copied for these 2 years 1784 and 1785 you need to look at them carefully to see if anyone had a reduction in their assessment of the £3 lands between 1784 and 1785.
It is only that one period the first time his name appears in the Church Rate Book 1784 - 87 that his name appears as James warren Esq. R.Smith occupier assessed at 2 1/2d times the rate for that period.
In the Church Rate Book prior to that for 1783 I cannot locate that property at 2 1/2d is it maybe included in a larger amount, Mrs Mary Thresher had 2 1/2d not there in 1784 - 87. Roger Mawby