Tax Records on Microfilm at the Hive
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Tax Records on Microfilm at the Hive Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Contents Tax Records on Microfilm at the Hive ......................................................... 0 Land Tax Returns 1781-1832 on Microfilm .............................................. 2 Introduction to Land Tax Returns .......................................................... 2 How to use this Handlist ....................................................................... 3 Section 1: Land Tax by Date ................................................................. 4 Section 2: Land Tax by Hundred ......................................................... 17 Hearth Tax Returns 1662-1678 on Microfilm ......................................... 34 Introduction ......................................................................................... 35 Section 1: Alphabetical Place Names Index ........................................ 37 Footnotes for Place Name Index ......................................................... 56 Section 2: Hearth Tax Film Contents Lists .......................................... 60 Poll Tax on Microfilm ........................................................................... 118 Introduction to Poll Tax Records ....................................................... 118 Worcester City .................................................................................. 119 Contact Us ........................................................................................... 120 Page | 1 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax Returns 1781-1832 on Microfilm Introduction to Land Tax Returns Land Tax Assessment was established in 1692 and was levied on land with an annual value of more than 20 shillings. It was first collected in 1693 and continued to be collected until 1963. Before 1780 Land Tax Assessments are rare but from then until 1832 duplicates of the Land Assessments had to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace and are to be found in County Quarter Sessions records. In 1798 the tax was fixed at 4 shillings in the pound and this was made as a permanent charge on the land. The landowners were given the choice of paying 15 years of tax in a lump sum and by 1815 one third of landowners had taken this option. Worcestershire Land Tax Returns can give: • Rental value of the owner’s property. • Names of owners and copyholders. • Names of occupiers. • Names or description of property or estate. • The amounts of tax levied. • Those owners exonerated from paying the tax annually. Land tax Returns classified at 260.2091 BA 4609 have not been microfilmed. These are Land Tax Assessments and related papers of the Middle and Lower Divisions of Oswaldslow/Worcester Division dated 1798 – 1946. Page | 2 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service How to use this Handlist 1. Find out which Hundred the parish you are looking for is in. This can be found in the green Worcestershire County Land Tax Assessment Volumes found in the Self-Service Area. All parishes and their hundreds are listed, together with dates of the surviving documents. 2. Check the years you require are available using the same volumes as in (1) above. There is no complete coverage of Land Tax Assessments and there are quite a few gaps. Note down any reference number written against each of the years in which you are interested. If there is no reference number we do not have a return for that year. 3. Once you have located the years and Hundred you require, locate the film number(s) you need using section 1 of this handlist. For example - if you require land tax assessments for Belbroughton for the year 1792 you will find in the Land Tax Placenames Index that Belbroughton is in the Hundred of Lower Halfshire. For the year 1792 the ref 152 BA 823/6 is given. If you check section 2 of this handlist you will find that 1792 ref 152 BA 826/6 Lower Halfshire Hundred is on film no. 5. 4. The second section of the handlist contains the information given in section 1, arranged by hundred. Page | 3 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Section 1: Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Blackenhurst 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Doddingtree 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Lower Halfshire 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Upper Halfshire 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 East Oswaldslow 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Lower Pershore 1 1781-1783 152 BA 823/1 Upper Pershore 1 1787 152 BA 823/2 Blackenhurst 1 1787 152 BA 823/2 Doddingtree 1 1787 152 BA 823/2 Lower Halfshire 1 1787 152 BA 823/2 Upper Halfshire 2 1787 152 BA 823/2 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 2 1787 152 BA 823/2 East Oswaldslow 2 1787 152 BA 823/2 Lower Pershore 2 1787 152 BA 823/2 Upper Pershore 2 1788 152 BA 823/3 Blackenhurst 2 1788 152 BA 823/3 Doddingtree 2 Page | 4 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1788 152 BA 823/3 Upper Halfshire 2 1788 152 BA 823/3 Lower Halfshire 2 1788 152 BA 823/3 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 3 1788 152 BA 823/3 East Oswaldslow 3 1788 152 BA 823/3 Lower Pershore 3 1788 152 BA 823/3 Upper Pershore 3 1789 152 BA 823/4 Blackenhurst 3 1789 152 BA 823/4 Doddingtree 3 1789 152 BA 823/4 Lower Halfshire 3 1789 152 BA 823/4 Upper Halfshire 4 1789 152 BA 823/4 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 4 1789 152 BA 823/4 East Oswaldslow 4 1789 152 BA 823/4 Lower Pershore 4 1789 152 BA 823/4 Upper Pershore 4 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 Blackenhurst 4 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 Upper Halfshire 5 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 5 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 East Oswaldslow 5 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 Lower Pershore 5 Page | 5 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1790-1791 152 BA 823/5 Upper Pershore 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 Blackenhurst 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 Doddingtree 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 Lower Halfshire 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 Upper Halfshire 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 5 1792 152 BA 823/6 East Oswaldslow 6 1792 152 BA 823/6 Lower Pershore 6 1792 152 BA 823/6 Upper Pershore 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Blackenhurst 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Lower Halfshire 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Upper Halfshire 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 East Oswaldslow 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Lower Pershore 6 1793-1794 152 BA 823/7 Upper Pershore 7 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Blackenhurst 24 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Lower Halfshire 25 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Upper Halfshire 25 Page | 6 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 25 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 East Oswaldslow 25 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Lower Pershore 25 1794-1795 152 BA 1636/1 Upper Pershore 25 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 Blackenhurst 25 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 Lower Halfshire 26 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 26 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 East Oswaldslow 26 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 Lower Pershore 26 1795-1796 152 BA 1636/2 Upper Pershore 26 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Blackenhurst 26 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Doddingtree 26 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Lower Halfshire 27 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 27 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Lower Pershore 27 1797-1798 152 BA 1636/3 Upper Pershore 27 1799 152 BA 1636/4(i) Doddingtree 27 1799 152 BA 1636/4(i) Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 27 1799 152 BA 1636/4(i) Upper Pershore 27 Page | 7 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1800-1802 152 BA 823/8 Blackenhurst 7 1800-1802 152 BA 823/8 Upper Halfshire 7 1800-1802 152 BA 823/8 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 7 1800-1802 152 BA 823/8 Upper Pershore 7 1800-1802 152 BA 823/8 East Oswaldslow 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Blackenhurst 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Doddingtree 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Lower Halfshire 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Upper Pershore 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 East Oswaldslow 8 1802-1803 152 BA 823/9 Upper Halfshire 8 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Upper Halfshire 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Lower Halfshire 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Upper Pershore 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Lower Pershore 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 Doddingtree 9 1804-1805 152 BA 823/10 East Oswaldslow 9 Page | 8 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref. No. Hundreds Film No. 1806 152 BA 823/11 Blackenhurst 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Doddingtree 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Lower Halfshire 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Upper Halfshire 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 East Oswaldslow 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Lower Pershore 10 1806 152 BA 823/11 Upper Pershore 10 1807-1808 152 BA 823/12 Blackenhurst 11 1807-1808 152 BA 823/12 Doddingtree 11 1807-1808 152 BA 823/12 Upper Halfshire 11 1807-1808 152 BA 823/12 Lower Halfshire 11 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Blackenhurst 11 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Doddingtree 11 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Lower Halfshire 11 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Upper Halfshire 12 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Middle and Lower Oswaldslow 12 1808-1809 152 BA 823/13 Lower Pershore 12 1809-1810 152 BA 823/14 Blackenhurst 12 Page | 9 www.explorethepast.co.uk Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service Land Tax by Date Date Original ref.