Life on the Trentham Estate: Local Tradesmen and Trentham Hall
Documents relating to life on the Trentham estate include accounts made by local tradesmen, such as butchers and grocers. In September 1776 ‘William Plant’, a miller from Trentham sent proposals to provide ...
Life on the Trentham Estate: Building Work and Repairs, 1777
Amongst papers relating to life of the Trentham Estate in the eighteenth century are accounts describing building work undertaken on the Estate in 1777. The ‘Scheme of Building at Trentham in 1777’ describes ...
Life on the Sutherland Estate: Manor Court Rolls
Court Rolls from the Manor Court at Trentham provide a colourful insight into the lives of people living on the Trentham Estate during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The document above is ...
The Trentham Hotel in the Sutherland Papers
The photograph above shows the Trentham Hotel in the early twentieth century. The Hotel was known as the 'Roebuck Hotel', after the Duke of Sutherland donated a statue of a roebuck to the hotel in 1865.
The ...
The Housekeeper's and Butler’s Accounts for Trentham Hall, 1682
Amongst the account books for Trentham Hall during the later seventeenth century is a volume of accounts kept by the Housekeeper and Butler at the Hall. The image above is an extract from this volume, ...
The Library and Servant's Room at Trentham Hall
Amongst the papers of Sir John Leveson Gower, first Earl Gower (1694-1754) is a document entitled ‘An Estimate for the workmanship of the Carcase of a building design’d for a Library and Servants Room ...
Sir Charles Barry's Trentham Hall, 1834
In 1834 George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), the second Duke of Sutherland, employed Charles Barry to remodel Trentham Hall and its gardens. Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860) had grown in ...
The First House at Trentham, 1540-1591
James Leveson’s son Sir Richard Leveson and his wife Mary inherited Trentham when James died in 1545. Mary outlived her husband by over thirty years and had a long association with the first Trentham ...
The Leveson Family & Trentham Priory
The Leveson family first became associated with Trentham in 1540. In 1536 Trentham Priory was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A successful wool merchant from Wolverhampton, James ...
The Trentham Estate: The Chief Agent’s Cash Book, 1778-1785
The image above shows a page taken from the Chief Agent’s Cash Book dating from 1778-1785. Thomas Horwood, Earl Gower’s Chief Agent during this period was responsible for keeping this account of payments ...
Lilleshall Elections, 1832
The document above is a printed list of men from the Parish of Kinnerlsey who were eligible to vote in the Parliamentary Elections in 1832.
The document tells us that William and Thomas Hooper were ...
Survey of the Weald Moors, 1579
The image above shows a survey of the Weald Moors made in the late 1570s. The survey includes detailed drawings of fields and houses, woods and mills. Roads, bridges and parks are also featured on the ...
Plan of Cherrington, 1576
The image above shows a plan of fields in Cherrington made in 1576. The plan includes a huge amount of detail telling us about the township of Cherrington during the late sixteenth century.
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Servants at Lilleshall Hall
The image above shows an extract from a list of servants who were employed at establishments owned by the Duke of Sutherland. The printed document lists servants who were employed at the family's London, ...
Charity on the Lilleshall Estate, 1896
The image above shows a document outlining the allowance made by the third Duke and Duchess of Sutherland to a lady called Emma Morris who occupied a cottage on the Lilleshall estate.
Emma had worked ...
Report of Cottages on the Lilleshall Estate, 1826
The document above is taken from a report of cottages on the Lilleshall Estate in the early nineteenth century. The page above shows listings for tenants in Wombridge, Leegomery and Paynes Lane and provides ...
The Sale of the Ketley Estate, 1894
The image above shows a poster advertising the sale of the Duke of Sutherland’s lands in Ketley in 1894. Ketley formed part of the Duke’s Lilleshall Estate comprising of 834 acres of lands, farms and ...
Lilleshall Cottage and Garden Inspection Report, 1848
The image above shows a report made following an inspection of cottages and gardens on the Duke of Sutherland's Shropshire estates in 1848. The inspection was made in order to award prizes to cottagers ...