Survey and valuation of the Cheshire estates of Sir Brian Broughton Delves by John Probert

Item date: 1762
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2008
Item institution: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Town/City: Chester
County: Cheshire

A volume of 180 vellum leaves serving as a key to John Probert's maps of Doddington and Broughton, the two seats of the Delves Broughton family, already held by Cheshire and Chester Archives. It includes information on tenants and tenures, field names and acreages, the physical condition of each farm, the state of the timber and the condition of the soil. The volume has a fine title page decorated with a surveyor's tools, theodolite, quadrant, plane table &c, and pen-and-ink drawings of Wybunbury Church and Doddington Hall.

Item Provenance
Private collection