Dear William
I've searched through the documents that give the list of Cathedral holdings at
Northampton and have come up with the following. Other documents for example
Dean and Chapter accounts probably also contain relevant information but I have
confined this list to those that mention Castor directly.
PDC FB 6 Maps of the Dean and Chapter Estates made c 1820s inc
10) Belsize estate Castor
11) Estimate for repairs of Belsize Farm Dickinsons Farm and Castor Manor Farm
in Castor 1824
47) Northborough Manor Farmm inc Belsize Farm
X 5145 4 land tax Redemption Cetificates Dean and Chapter property in
Peterbrorough, Castor, Maxey, Northborough and Longthorpe.
X 5145 5 Land Tax Redemption Certificate: Bishopric property in Werrington and
Castor 1844 - 1847
X 5163 32 Correspondence re transfer of manors to the Eccleisiastical
Commissioners 1933-1934 (Castor not metnioned specifically)
Box 3 4 4/4/1692 Inventory of goods of William Deacon of Belsis castor deceased
15 2 cases for opinion of counsel ... rights to timber of land let out by dean
and Chapter in a) Castor Sutton and Ailsworth b) Belsize Farm
Box 5 71 16/9/[1577] Interrogatioies ... on behalf of Sir William Fitzwilliam
in case between him and the Dean and Chapter defendents re fishing rights ...river
tolls in Castor and Milton.
Box 9 = Amuunition Box 6 items 312 - 356 included various valuations and leases
etc on Dean and Chapter lands in Castor and include item 332 Aug 1806 Survey of
Castor manor farm & notes on former leases & parliamentary seventeenth
century valuations. 356 Court Roll of Castor 23/5/1540.
415 1804-1805 valuation of Dean and Chapter timber at Belsize farm 1805
Box 16 = Ammunition Box 690/61 1829 Survey of timber Manor Farm and Belsie's
Farm Castor
708-719 leases - indentures on farms in Castor and Alwalton in Alleyns farm
(1818) various dates.
Account Rolls Box 1 14 1403 Account of Castor
Box 2 6 1446 Account of Castor
Peterborough Dean and Chapter Court Rolls 3 1363-1364 Castor 3/11/1363 &
11/4/1364
several refs to Courts/Hall Moots 4 1364 Hallmoots Caster 21 Nov, 6 1377 Court
castor 16 April 1377, 9 1391 Castor 26 Oct. After 1391 Castor is not listed
separately although records of courst continue until 1549.
A further court is listed in item 153 Sutton & Castor cum Ailsworth 14 Apr
1662 with a note that these are normally Bishopric Manors.
I hope that some of the above is helpful.
Best wishes
Catherine Keating
DATA BASE REF NO: P 1025
TITHE ROLL 1847
LIST OF OWNERS/OCCUPIERS AND LOCATIONS CASTOR and
AILSWORTH
SEARCH RESULTS at
Northants County Record Office 2003 re Castor and Ailsworth
Notes:
Bold heading =
landowner
No = plot number
for tithe apportionment
Name beside number
= occupier
After dash - =
description of property as given in roll
Address in
brackets = attempt to identify present site of property
Task not completed
due to time and illegibility of part of tithe map
Some obvious
properties missing from this list; eg Castor House, Village Farm The Elms,
Vast majority of
all property in both village owned by Dean and Chapter or Fitzwilliams
PROPERTIES BELONGING TO DEAN AND CHAPTER and latterly
ECCLESIASTICALCOMMISSIONERS
No 36: Wm Bate
–house, yard, dovecot, homestead and garden (Manor Farm Ailsworth),
No 156 wm Butler
(house now 16 High Street Castor)
No 87 Wm Bate –
house and orchard (site now The Limes Ailsworth, where Gibson’s live/now Leeds)
No 15 Robert Drake
– cottage, yard and garden (now where Hilary Pounsett lives)
No 14 Wm Freer –
cottage, yard and garden (now where Hilary Pounsett lives)
No 36a Gabriel
French – farm homestead, cottage, garden and close (now part of old Manor
Farmhouse)
No 18 John Graham
– cottage, yard and garden ,in Main
Street Ailsworth
No 88 John Hales
and the Widow Ward – Peterborough Road Castor (area c opp Winfrey homes)
No 89 George Key –
cottage and garden– Peterborough Road Castor (area c opp Winfrey homes)
No 21 Wm Newborn –
Main Street Ailsworth ‘A’ side.
No 83 Thomas
Sismey – house, yard and garden, (immed East of house now called Church View)
No 13 Charles
Sharpe – farm (top part of Main Street Ailsworth
No 25 George Smith
– farmhouse and homestead (L-shaped house, left bottom of of Main Street Ailsworth)
No 91 Frances
Stanger – cottage and garden (now where Ted Fairchild lives)
No 92 John
As(f)ton – cottage and yard (little cottage in Splash Lane)
No 86 Harriet
Chapple – (now site of Ian Sheldon’s
house)
No 75 John
Mappison – (site West of Old Smithy Peterborough Road Castor)
No 97 John
Serjeant – farm homestead (now Bramble Cottage site, Stuar Wood)
No 164 Thomas
Smith – farmhouse homestead (now Three Chimneys)
No 1 Thomas Fen – cottager (site in area of
King’s Acre)
No 127 Richard Marriott – farmhouse and homestead
(now Manor Farm Castor)
No 90 Richard Marriott – (site immed West of Ted
Fairchild on P’boro Road Castor)
No 100 Wm Callow –
farmhouse and homestead (now The Hollies)
No 165 Wm Callow –
farm homestead ( site of the barns for The Limes, P’boro Road Castor)
No 169 Wm Callow –
Campion’s Close
No 81 John Darby –
cottage and garden (West of Church View nr Village Hall)
No 89 – on P’Boro
Road Castor (c opp Winfrey home)
No 166 Wm Berridge
- farmhouse and homestead, Close
LANDOWNER
RICHARD DEANE
No 117a Thomas Wright – cottage and yard (now R &
L Wright’s house, Main Street Ailsworth)
LANDOWNER ANN DICKENS
No 133 Wm Stanger
– cottage, bar and garden (John Neal’s house on The Green Castor)
LANDOWNER JOHN DICKENS
No 66 Matthew
Aspital – cottage ( site E of Village Sign Cottage, P’boro Road)
No 132 George
Pywell – cottage and garden ( East of the Cabin on Allotment Lane)
LANDOWNER ELIZABETH DRAKE
No 53 Elizabeth Drake
– house and yard (next to old Wheatsheaf pub)
LANDOWNER RICHARD FITZJOHN
Nos 62,63,64
Richard Fitzjohn – cottage and yards (Main Street Ailsworth)
LANDOWNER Hon GEORGE FITZWILLIAM
No 126 Castor
Pound on The Green
No 148 Ed Artis –
house and garden (Now Hanover House Church Hill Castor)
No 520 Ailsworth
Pound (top of Ailsworth, off Helpston Road)
No 79 School and
House (Village Hall)
No 149 Mary Ann
Almond – house (now The Grove Church Hill Castor)
No 113 James Beeby
– house and garden (site now York Cottage Church Hill Castor)
No 29 Samuel
Briggs – house, wheelwright, shop etc (area of Ailsworth Green junct)
No 31 Eunice
Carter – farmhouse and homestead (now 10 Main Street Ailsworth nr Chapel)
No 47 Eunice
Carter – yard, garden and close (Ailsworth , P’boro Road)
No 82 John Darby
sen – house, yard and garden (now Church View P’boro Road Castor)
No 76 Ann Dickens
– farmhouse, homestead and garden ( now The Old Smithy, 47 P’boro Road)
No 80 – farm,
homestead and Close (site now East of Village Hall)
No 152 Wm Dickens
- cottage and garden ( now 11 High
Street Castor)
No 98 Richard
Fitzjohn – homestead and close (now 17 P’boro Road Alan and Joyce Herbert)
No 30/48 Gabriel
French – far homestead (site of Old Chapel Church Hill Castor)
No 147 John Pell –
cottage and garden (now 11 Church Hill Castor)
No 117 John
Stanger and others – cottage and garden (area of 6 Church Hill Castor)
No 33 Martin
Setchel – farm homestead and close ( north of Limes, Helpston Road Ailsworth
No 119 William
Pearson– cottage and garden (area of 6
Church Hill Castor)
LANDOWNER EDWARD GIBBON
Edward Gibbon –
house yard and garden (area of 6 Church
Hill Castor)
No 137 – hovel and
close (top left of Clay Lane)
No 120 Joseph
Bodma – house, building and garden (now Durobrivae Lodge Castor)
No 146 Will Yates
Hordern – cottage and yard (now 7
Church Hill Castor)
No 145 Richard
Marriott – farmhouse and homestead ( now area of old barn, rt side of Clay
Lane)
LANDOWNER RECTORIAL GLEBE
No 112a Wrights – field (school field, next to the
Cedars, P’boro Road Castor)
No 128
LANDOWNER WHITE
N0 109 Elizabeth
Holmes – close (school field)