Description:The document above is an indenture involving land owned by the Duke of Sutherland and Caverswall School Board, made on 31st July 1877.
The document provides details about the ‘absolute sale’ of a piece of land owned by George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1828-1892), the third Duke of Sutherland, in the Parish of Caverswall. The land was purchased by Caverswall School Board at a cost of over three hundred and forty pounds for ‘a site for a Public Elementary School’ in Caverswall.
The site would also provide a ‘residence’ for the school master or mistress.
The plan attached to the front of the document shows the location of the piece of land which was ‘bounded on the north by the North Staffordshire Railway’, and on the south ‘by the public Highway leading from Longton to Blyth Bridge’. The plan shows the position of the site between the Wesleyan Chapel and Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks in Caverswall.
Click on the image on the left to see a plan of the site for the new school in Caverswall.