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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

1 - Enclosure act for Fovant, Swallowcliffe, Ebbesborne Wake, Broad Chalk, Bower Chalke, Alvediston, Bishopstone and Fifield Bovant (3 copies).

2 - Minute book for the enclosure of Fovant, Swallowcliffe, Ebbesborne Wake, Broad Chalk, Bower Chalke, Alvediston, Bishopstone and Fifield

3 - Rough valuation of lands in Swallowcliffe, arranged by categories but not identified.

4 - Enclosure award, Alvediston, Bishopstone, Bower Chalke, Broad Chalk, Ebbesborne Wake, Fifield Bavant, Fovant and Swallowcliffe.

5 - Survey of Stoke Farthing, early 18th century, and receipt relating to the enclosure of Stoke Farthing in Broad Chalke, 1788.

6 - Wylye enclosure award

7 - Quidhampton enclosure award (no map)

8 - Draft mortgage of a house and land in Chilmark.

9 - Broad Chalke and Chilmark enclosure minute book. The enclosure Act, 1814, is inserted in the front

10 - Survey of the Broad Chalke commons and furze allotments, for the purposes of enclosure.

11 - Broad Chalke allotting book. There is an index at the front.

12 - Broad Chalke and Chilmark enclosure award, with two maps and with consents by landowners.

13 - Papers (6) relating to exchanges of land in Dinton under the enclosure award; including two particulars, early 18th century

14 - Two surveys of Fovant, not quite identical; and a valuation.

15 - Teffont Magna enclosure award and map.

16 - Papers (6) relating to exchanges of land in Teffont.

17 - Minute book for the enclosure of Wilton, Burcombe, Netherhampton and Fugglestone St. Peter. The enclosure Act, 1825, is inserted at the front.

18 - Wilton enclosure award. With two maps and consents by landowner.

19 - Letter book relating to the enclosure of Lea and Cleverton. There is an index at the back.

20 - Act for enclosing lands in Barford St. Martin and South Newton, and extinguishing common rights in Barford St. Martin and Baverstock.

21 - Barford St. Martin enclosure papers, 1809-1810 including a survey of the manor, early 18th century

22 - Particular of lands in Stoford common fields in South Newton relating to arrangements under the Barford St Martin enclosure award.

23 - Great Wishford enclosure papers (5), including a printed sale particular of the manor with valuation, 1807.

24 - Wylye enclosure minute book. Inserted at the front is an Act to emend the law respecting the enclosure of open fields, etc., 1821

25 - Wylye enclosure award and map, 1861, with commissioners’ minutes 1840-1845

26 - Copies of enclosure agreements and awards: West Harnham 1887, Swallowcliffe and Ebbesborne Wake 1792, Alvediston 1792, Fovant 1792, Wylye 1794 and 1796, Dinton 1792, Teffont Magna 1799 and 1800, Dinton 1801, Wishford 1809 (2), Barford St Martin and South Newton 1809.

27 - General Enclosure Act.

28 - Absolute order of the enclosure commissioners relating to the Wilton estate, charging various properties with the cost of new farm buildings, road-making, grubbing up woodland and cottage improvements. Includes three maps. Relates to Fugglestone St. Peter, Strafford-sub-Castle, South Newton, Little Langford, Wishford, Wylye, Fovant, Bishopstone, Netherhampton and Bower Chalke.

29 - Enclosure award with articles of agreement, Stanton St Bernard. With copies.

30 - Enclosure award for Ugford, Burcombe

31 - Enclosure award with articles of agreement, the manor of Chilhampton in South Newton, with plan. With copies, not of the plan.

32 - Articles of agreement for enclosure, West Overton

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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