Records of the Savile Estate, Thornhill

Records of the estate including:

Deeds and leases of estate property in Alverthorpe, Batley, Brodsworth, Clayton West, Cumberworth, Denby, Dewsbury, Earlsheaton, Edlington and Stainton, Elland cum Greetland, Emley, Flockton, Hunsworth, Ingbirchworth, Maltby, Oxenhope and Stanbury, Rawtonstall, Shitlington, Skelmanthorpe, Soothill, Southowram, Stansfield, Thornhill and Thornhill Lees, Wadsworth; and in Durham, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Westminster, 19th century-20th century

Rental ledgers, c1710-1935; leasehold ledgers for Heptonstall, Wadworth, Rawtonstall, Emley, Denby, Thornhill and Soothill, c1869-1892; annual estate accounts, 1807-1950; expenditure books; letter books 1906-1909, 1938-1962; terrier of the Savile Yorkshire estate relating to the Savile Estate (Leasing) Act, 1861; detailed report and survey of Thornhill estate, including tenancies, rental and photographs 1999 Savile Trust accounts, 1869

Estate maps including: Lordship of Thornhill owned by Sir William Savile surveyed by Edward Rolston 1634; Birkenshaw area (bounded by Oakenshaw fields, Hunsworth, Bierley, Barkisland) surveyed by Thomas Pollard 1714; Thornhill estate plan 1714; maps of estate at Denby Hall, 1715; Emley, 1715, 1778 and c1818; Wadsworth, 1715, 1779; Spink Hall estate in Wadsworth; plan of sporting rights nd; plan of Manor of Midgley and Wadsworth boundaries; Soothill 1857; Horbury 1893; map of Sitlington (otherwise Shitlington) and Overton (otherwise Overstown) 1919;

One-inch Ordnance Survey base map marked up to show estate property in Mirfield, Thornhill, Flockton, Emley, Denby, Rishworth, Stainland, Elland, Golcar, Heptonstall, Wadsworth, Stansfield, Ovenden, Elland, Shelf, Hunsworth and Soothill, 1853

25 inch Ordnance Survey maps marked up to show estate property, with tenants' names, acreages, some notes of crops grown and dates of field drainage, sites of reservoirs, coal faces, etc, in Thornhill: town, cottages, Headfield Farm; Soothill; Emley: north and south portions including Moorhead Farm, Clayton West and Ingbirchworth, Rusby's Farm; Denby Dale: land near Clayton West, property at the viaduct; Flockton; Skelmanthorpe: Langley Farm; Wadsworth: east and west portions including Moorcock, Horrodidle and Top o'the Fields Farms; Rawtonstall: including Scammerton and Priory Farms; c1870-1925 Plan of Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds railway extension to Batley, 1860

Sale plans

Court rolls of the manor of Heptonstall, 1810-1896

Rufford estate ledger and day book, 1930-1943

• <famname>Lumley-Savile family, Barons Savile</famname>
• <famname>Savile, Lumley-, family, Barons Savile</famname>

Records can be viewed by appointment only during normal office hours of 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday

Estate report and survey 1999 subject to closure period

The Savile Estate Office moved into new premises in c1962. Some estate records may have been lost in the clear-out of the old premises and in a fire.