Deeds, accounts and letters, together with bound volumes of accounts, maps and plans relating to the family and estates of the Wentworth family of Woolley Hall, Yorkshire
Further papers of the Wentworth family of Woolley Hall, Yorkshire
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS Dep. 1949/1
- Dates of Creation1601-2000
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description53 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Wentworths were one of the most prominent land-owning families in Yorkshire. Sir Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse married Beatrice Woodrove of Woolley, near Wakefield in ca.1514, but a branch of the family was established at Woolley in 1599, when Michael Wentworth purchased an estate from Francis Woodruffe (or Woodrove), whose family had owned land there since the fourteenth century. Woolley Hall is a Jacobean building, dating from 1635, with many later alterations. The surrounding landscape park is largely unchanged since 1800, and includes wooded pleasure grounds.
Arrangement
The boxes are numbered 21-74, consecutive to those comprising MS Dep. 1946/1
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Acquisition Information
Deposited by Commander Ewart Wentworth
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The contents of the archive are listed in detail in Handlists 9 and 10. The manorial documents have been indexed by the Historical Manuscripts Commission for their on-line Manorial Documents Register.