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NOWERS ESTATE, WELLINGTON

Catalogue reference: DD\WTN

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This record is about the NOWERS ESTATE, WELLINGTON dating from 1693-1841.

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Reference
DD\WTN
Title
NOWERS ESTATE, WELLINGTON
Date
1693-1841
Description

The main group of deeds in this small collection relate to the part of the Nowers Estate in Wellington which was acquired by John Pope in 1818 and which can be identified as Lower Nowers Farm. The Pope connection with the area continued to relatively recent times, the donor being the daughter of the last John Pope of Wellington. In the late 18th century the larger Nowers estate had belonged to John Southerton, who also for a few years owned the manor of Wellington Borough, but the estate was broken up after he was declared bankrupt in c.1799.

Nowers House had probably also belonged to Southerton and may be the house excepted in the 1807 deed [DD\WTN 1], but the only papers definitely to be associated with this house are the letters from the time of the Were/Cookson sale [DD\WTN 8; confirmed by land tax assessments and tithe apportionment].

Held by
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Language
English
Physical description
9 bundles
Immediate source of acquisition

C/976

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/3d5c1c45-0b37-44c9-b318-6de9c54ff306/

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