Hooks Green Farm in 1820
This plan of Hooks Green Farm was made in 1820 and names the tenant of Hooks Green as Robert Tildesley. The farm was situated on the Old Road running between Stone and Cheadle, and adjoining the Meaford ...
Hooks Green Farm, Stone
This is a plan of the Hooks Green Estate in Stone, made in 1811. The plan divided into lots shows the location of the Hooks Green Estate on the road from Stone to Lane end and adjoining roads from Meaford ...
Letter from George Cookes, Stone to Isaac Brisbane, Trentham, 1719
George Cookes of Stone wrote to Isaac Brisbane of Trentham on 31st March 1719 concerning the number of cattle that had been purchased from Trentham.
Cookes refers to a visit to Stone and a letter ...
Mickle House Farm, Stone
This plan shows farm buildings at Mickle House in Stone with proposed alterations, additions and repairs. The drawing includes a plan of the outbuildings at the farm for pigs, cows and bulls and also ...
Mickle House Farm, Stone 1820
This plan of ‘The Mickle House Farm’ tells us that the farm in Stone was occupied by a man named John Brett. The farm was situated along the road between Eccleshall and Stone and included a number of ...
More about Mickle House Farm, 1820-1821
The Sutherland Papers include a survey of Mickle House farm made in 1820. The numbers listed in the survey relate directly to the numbered sections on the plan of Mickle House from 1820.
The survey ...
Normacot Grange Farm Buildings
This photograph taken in the late nineteenth century shows the farm buildings at Normacot Grange Farm in the Parish of Stone. The stables can be seen on the left of the photograph opposite the barn area ...
Normacot Grange Farm House and Buildings
This photograph shows part of Normacot Grange Farm House and the farm buildings. Taken in the late nineteenth century, the photograph shows a number of outbuildings where animals were kept, including ...
Normacot Grange Farm, 1851
The Sutherland Papers contains a number of papers relating to a dispute involving Normacot Grange Farm in the North of Stone Parish. The dispute concerned a man named Thomas Webster and the Duke of Sutherland’s ...
Paving the Town of Stone, 1778
This document shows a list of subscribers to donated money towards ‘paving the Town of Stone’ in 1778. Earl Gower donated twenty one pounds and appears at the top of the list as providing the highest ...
Stone Parish Receipts and Disbursements, 1828-1829
Amongst printed material relating to Stone is an account of the receipts and disbursements of the Parish from 1828-1829. This document provides an insight into life in Stone during the early nineteenth ...
Survey of Hooks Green Farm, 1820
The Survey of Hooks Green Farm from 1820 tells us that the small cluster of red buildings on the 1820 plan formed Robert Tildesley's 'Messuage' on the land.
The Survey describes croft land which was ...
The Crompton Family of Stone in the Sutherland Papers
The Marquis of Stafford became the Lord of the Manor of Stone in 1798
when an Inclosure Bill led to the Leveson-Gower family acquiring considerable land and property in Stone which had once belonged ...
Thomas Webster’s Complaint
Thomas Webster wrote to the Duke of Sutherland in 1851 claiming to be suffering from ‘great difficulty and distress combined with a damaged reputation’.
Webster attributed his distress to ‘the arbitary ...