Description:The Sutherland Papers contain a number of documents providing a detailed description of lands and properties in Cheddleton, including the township of Consall. These documents tell us about Cheddleton during the nineteenth century at a crucial time of industrial development.
Cheddleton in 1801
Amongst papers relating to Cheddleton is a document entitled ‘The Particulars of A Capital and Very Valuable Freehold Estate, Situate at Cheddleton’. These sales papers from 1801 provide an insight into Cheddleton at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Cheddleton is referred to throughout the document as ‘Chedleton’, and is described as a ‘fine healthy Part of the County of Stafford, within Four Miles of Leek and Cheadle, Nine of Newcastle, and about Thirty from Lichfield and Derby’.
The lands and properties listed include ‘Westwood Hall’ which, complete with its 'Offices, Coach-Houses, Stabling, walled Gardens’ and ‘Pleasure Walks’, was to be sold by Messrs Skinner and Dyke ‘At Garraway’s Coffee-house’ in London on ‘Wednesday the 22nd of July 1801, at Twelve o’ Clock’.
A list of ‘Conditions of Sale’ features in the Particulars, stating that ‘the capital thriving Oak and other Timber Trees, Plantation, and Underwood, of very considerable Value, will be sold and included in the Purchase of the Estate’.