Bollington Leases for Lives

Scope and Content

Individual tenements or holdings are numbered up to 34 in the leases below, although tenement numbers 18 and 19 are not represented.

Dating: the majority of leases date from the period 1700-1840, with single examples from 1638 (EGR14/2/4/65), 1681/2 (EGR14/2/4/30) and 1696 (EGR14/2/4/85). There are also notes relating to Bollington leases, ?1870s (EGR14/2/4/145).

Acquisition Information

All items were received from the Stamford Estate Office in Altrincham on 24 January 1992, except for the following which were received in April 1981: EGR14/2/4/6-7, /12, /16-17, /19, /22, /26, /29, /34, /37-38, /40, /44, /50, /52, /54, /57, /61, /64, /72, /78, /81, /84, /91, /96, /100, /106, /109-111, /113, /127, /131, /133, /137 & /140-145.