Some Ashreigney landowners in 1873

SOME ASHREIGNEY LANDOWNERS IN 1873

The connection of the people named below with Instow lies in the fact that in the return of Owners of Land (1873), they gave Ashreigney as their address. This does not imply that all of the land owned by them lay in the Parish of Ashreigney.

White's Directory of 1878 gives the acreage of the parish as 5663 acres. At this time J. G. Johnson MP, was lord of the manor.

The list was prepared as a valuation for calculating the Parish Rate and Poor Rate payable on each property.* Owners of land less than 1 acre were not included nor were holders of Long (99 year) Leases. Valuation, based on gross estimated rental, was carried out at local level and was largely a matter of guesswork, there being no standardisation of approach to valuation across the county. Waste and Common land was not included.

*Property valuation remains to the present time the basis of assessment for raising money to be spent locally - known today as Council Tax.

NAME	APPROXIMATE ACREAGE	GROSS ESTIMATED ANNUAL RENTAL IN POUNDS (£)
Edwin Babbage	38	22
Gilbert Babbage	20	30
James Babbage	57	42
John Babbage	41	26
Lawrence Babbage	38	22
Mr. Benson	415	210
James Boundy	11	2
Samuel Boundy	11	9
John Carter	4	3
Amy Cole	39	21
John Cole	28	32
Samuel Cole	12	7
William Cole	11	17
William Cooke	59	26
Richard Darch	2	5
William Folland	1	10d
Michael Ford	2	3
William Gay	4	14
John Hancock	41	34
Elizabeth Harris	3	4
Hannah Harris	1	1
Jeremiah Harris (Roborough)	5	3
Jeremiah Harris	15	28
Robert Harris	22	19
James Hill	2	1
Mr. Hocking	61	28
William C. Lane	3	3
Richard Lock	3	1
John Mitchell	2	4
Rev. J. Russell	13	6
Rev. R. L. P Sambourne	83	94
Trustees of Mr. Sheere	475	272
Bernard Short	27	32
Christopher Turner	25	12
Amos Western	9	8