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Otham Tithe award schedule  116KB - signed 16th May 1838
    With names of landowners, occupiers and fieldnames with acreages, and tithe payments

 

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Otham Tithe award schedule - signed 16th May 1838

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Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Sheet 1
Thomas
   Avery

John
   Austin












William
   Baldwin
       Esq























Sheet 2

Thomas
   Avery

John
   Austin







Thomas
   Dunk



John
   Austin

244


169
170
171
172
173
189

196
201
199




112
113
115
116
122
124
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
138
139
140

141
143

144

145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
155
159
174

Averys Garden


Bugle Horn
Bugle Hop Garden
Bugle  Wood
Bugle Shaw
Arable
Bugle Horn Orchard
   House Gdn & Barn
Apple Orchard
Oast House
Cottage Yard & Gdn
Extraordinary Charge on
 No 170 Hops 7a 2r 0p


Little Pudlet Wood
Pudlet W & Banky Shaw
Little Meadow
Little Mdw in Shaw
Long Meadow
Water
Banky Field
North Field Shaw
North Field
Pt of North Field
Link Field
Link Field
Banky Field
Kiln Meadow
Kiln Meadow
Toll Hop Garden
The Toll
Little Wood
The Forstall
Cottage & Gardens
   part Fruit Plantation
Grove Meadow
House Orchard with
   House Yard & Bldgs
Barn Field
   Part of Barn Field
Maiden Valley Field
Maiden Valley
Langley Field
Langley Field
Lower Wood
South Field
South Field Shaw
House Hop Garden
House Hop Garden
The Toll
Pigeon Wood
Austens Upper Wood
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 17a 0r 33p

Arable


Wood
Hops
Wood
Wood
Arable
Orchard &
 Pasture
Orchard
---
---

at 15s


Wood
Wood
Hops
Wood
Meadow
Water
Arable
Wood
Arable
Wood
Arable
Hops
Wood
Meadow
Wood
Hops
Wood
Wood
Waste
Garden
Plantation
Meadow

---
Arable
Hops
Wood
Meadow
Wood

Wood

Wood


Wood
Wood
Wood

@ 15s


0.0. 9


0.1.19}
7.2.32}
2.3. 5
0.0.12}
5.0.16}

1.3.31
0.2. 4
0.0. 7
 0.0.32
18.2.38
per acre


0.0.17
4.3. 8
1.2.21}
0.1. 0}
2.2.21
0.0.25
5.1.31
1.2. 8
11.1.30}
0.1.27}
5.0. 9}
4.3.16}
0.0.30
3.1.35}
0.1. 3}
4.3.26
0.1.38
0.1.25
1.1. 1
0.0.22
0.1. 0
4.0.11

2.2. 0
11.3. 7}
4.2. 0}
3.1. 8
0.2.16
0.2. 1}
3.2.35}
1.2. 0
13.0. 4
0.2.12
1.2.19}
3.3.15}
0.1. 1
2.1. 3
   1.2.35
110.2.  0
per acre


0. 0. 6



3. 6. 0
0. 7. 0

2. 2. 0

0.14. 6
0. 3. 6

          
6.13. 0
 5.12. 6
12. 5. 6

0. 0. 3
0.15. 9

0.14. 0
0.12. 0

2. 6. 0
0. 4. 6

4.18. 0





2. 1. 6
0. 0. 6
0. 0. 9


0. 2. 6
1. 0. 0

0.11. 6

6.18. 0
0. 6. 0
0. 2. 0

1.12. 6
0. 7. 0
5.10. 0
0.1. 3

2. 6. 0
0. 0. 6
0. 6. 0
  0. 3. 6
36. 0. 6
12.18. 1
48.18. 7

Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

William
   Baldwin
       Esq












Edward
   Bishop Jun


Daniel
   Betts






John
   Betts


Sheet 3
Messrs 
 Burren &
Butcher

Stephen
   Botten

John
   Ellis






Messrs
 Sharp &
Woolett

Daniel
   Betts
Messrs
 Brown &
Wildes



John
   Betts









John
 Barr
Cuckow &
 Chambers
157



200


245}
}
154}
}




187}
188}


118
123
119





32
39
40

41
64
66}
}
106
107
137
156

62
Cottage & Garden



White House Public
   House & Yard

Cottages & Garden
Garden
Old Hop Ground
Part of above
Extraordinary Charge on
  Hops 1a 3r 0p


Cottages in two
  tenement & Gardens


Staple Orchard Shaw
  ditto Hop Ground
Fruit Ground
2 Cottages & Gardens
Extraordinary Charge on
  Hops 7a 0r 35p


Pollard Hop Garden
Cherry Orchard
House Barn Yard
   & Orchard
Banky Meadow - Fruit
House Oast etc
Pond Field Hop Grd
Pond Field Hop Grd
Lower Garden
Long Dean
Peter plantation
Cottage & Garden

Cottage & Garden
Extraordinary Charge on
  Hops 11a 3r 15p
---



---


---
---
Hops
Arable

@ 15s


---



Wood
Hops
Fruit
---

@ 15s


Hops
Pasture

Orchard
Plantation
---
Hops
Arable
Hops
Meadow
Fruit etc
---

---

@ 15s

0.0.17



0.0.29


0.0.25}
0.2.  0}
1.3. 0}
2.1.13}
4.2.38 
per acre


0.1.20



0.1.19}
7.1. 8}
0.2.10
0.1. 5
8.2. 2
per acre



2.0.35
1.1. 1

2.3. 3
1.16. 0
0.1. 5
6.0.23}
1.3.29}
3.2. 3
1.2.32
0.2.37
0.1.24

  0.0.  5
22.0.13
per acre









0. 4. 6

1.17. 6
2.  2. 0
1.  6. 3
3.  8. 3






3. 8. 3
0. 5. 0
          
3.13. 3
8.  8. 3
9.  1. 6

1. 1. 0
0.10. 0

0.14. 0
0.10. 0


3.14. 0
1.12. 7
0. 7 .0
0. 7. 0


          
8.15. 7
 8.17. 8
17.13. 3

Edward
  Bishop Sen














Sir Edmond
   Filmer
       Bart
William
   Bishop







Edward
 Bishop Sen





James
   Betts
175
176
177
178
179
180}
}
181}
}
183
184
185




204
205
206}
}
Upper Wood Hop Gdn
Orchard Plat
---
---
---
---
---
Bishops ?Rook Lane
   ditto
House Orchard
---
House Bldgs & Orchard
Extraordinary Charge on
  Hops 8a 0r 0p


Hollands Hut - House &
Otham Hole Field
Otham Ground
Otham Ground
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 2a 1r 8p
Hops
Fruit
Hops
Garden
Orchard
Arable
Fruit/Hops
Hops
Arable
Orchard
Orchard
---

@ 15s


Garden
Arable
Hops
Arable

@ 15s

1.1. 6
0.1.20}
0.3. 4}
0.0.20
0.3. 4
1.1. 7}
2.0. 0}
4.0. 0}
1.3.34}
0.3.14
0.2.35
 1.0.25
15.1.  9
per acre


0.1.30
3.3.17
2.1. 8}
1.2.28}
8.1. 3 
per acre

0.10. 6

0. 9. 6
0. 1. 0
0. 4 .0

1. 7 .0

2.10. 6
0. 6. 6
0. 6. 0
0. 6. 0
6. 1. 0
 6. 0. 0
12. 1. 0

0. 2. 0
1.12. 0

1.14. 0
3.  8. 0
1.14. 6
5.  2. 6

Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Rev William
   Horne





Sheet 4
Rev William
   Horne






George
   Cutt
1


2

71


3
3a
4}
}
5
7}
}
11}
}
43
44
45
46
76
78
85
86
87
90
91
108
109
114
117
121
125
Gore Court Mansion
 Lawn Shrubberies Gdn
 Office & Buildings
Orchard Rick Yard 
   & Garden
East Wood


The Park
The Park
The Park West Side
The Park East Side
Fir plantation
Church Field
Church Field
Formerly Glebe
Formerly Glebe
Barnfield Yd & Bldgs
The Nine Acres
Taylors Hop Garden
Chesnut Plantation
Three Corner Field
Burnt Field
Long Meadow Shaw
Court Field
Court Field Shaw
Church Orchard
The Forstall
Kiln Meadow
Long Dean
Lower Green Hills
Green Hill Shaw
House Yard Outbuilding
Green Hill
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 20a 0r 20p


---

Pasture
Wood


Pasture
Wood
Pasture }
Pasture }
Firs
Arable
Shaw
Hops
Shaw
Arable
Arable
Hops
Wood
Pasture
Pasture
Wood
Arable
Wood
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Hops
Wood
---
Fruit/Hops

@ 15s



6.2.32

1.2. 0
16.0.25
24.1.17

33.0. 8}
0.3.18}

45.1.34}
0.1.33}
43.0.16}
0.2. 7}
1.2.32}
1.0. 0}
13.3.25}
8.3. 9}
4.1.25}
1.1.32
8.2. 3
5.3. 7
0.1.35
26.1.33}
0.1.14}
0.2.26}
2.0.17}
4.3.16
1.3.10
73.35}
0.0.31}
0.1.19
  6.2.18
220.3.23
per acre



1. 2. 6

0. 7. 6
1.  4. 0
2.14. 0





13.19. 0

19. 8. 0

0.18. 0


12.17. 0
0. 7. 6
0. 6. 0
0. 9 .0
0.1. 1½

11.18. 0

0.11. 0
0.19. 0
0. 7. 0

3.10. 0

  3. 4. 0
68.14.7½
15.1.10½
83.16. 6

















Sheet 5
H.B.
  Ibbotson





George
   Allfree







Messrs
Tomlyn 
 Pawley &
Eaton
John
 Eaton
James
 Betts &
George
 Allfree
Messrs
 Adams
Perrin &
Judd

31}
}
}




65
67
68
69

70



47}
48}
49}

50

165



89
Coal Pit Field
Coal Pit Field
Coal Pit Field
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 16a 3r 0p


Old Cherry Orchard
Swinyards Hop Garden
Front Meadow
Upper Hop Garden

Chesnut Plantation
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 6a 3r 20p

House in
  3 Tenements
  & Gardens

2 Gardens

House Yard Forge
   & Buildings


3 Cottages & Gardens
Hops
Arable
Shaw

@ 15s


Orchard
Hops
Meadow
Arable/
 Fruit
Wood

@ 15s



---

---

---



---

16.3. 0
8.1.22
 0.1.19
25.2.  1
per acre


2.0. 0
7.0.18
1.2. 5

4.0.23
 3.3.39
18.3. 5
per acre



0.1.15

2.0.18

0.2. 8



0.1.33
3.1.34



           
11.11. 0
12.11. 3
24. 2. 3

0.16. 0
3. 3. 6
0. 7. 6

1.17. 0
0.18.4½
7. 2.4½
 5.3.17½
12. 5. 6




1. 1. 0





         
1. 1. 0
Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

George
   Jennings
       Esq




Henry
 Knight Esq
& Sir William
 Brook
  Bridges Bart

The Poor of
 Lenham,
Trustees
 William
 Baldwin Esq
& George
 Harrison Esq
Charles
   Chambers





John
   Blinkhorn




Elizabeth
   Wiles
191






27

105



182
190
202

203
207
208
House Stables
  Land
  & Wood
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 0a 3r 0p


No Mans Acre
River abutting
Bye France Meadow



The ?Pightle
Wildes Hole  - Old
Upper Hop Garden
Upper Hop Garden
House Yard & Bldgs
Little Meadow
Old Cherry Orchard
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 1a 2r 0p
Hops
Arable
Wood

@ a5s


Garden
Water
Meadow



Arable
Orchard
Hops
Arable
---
Meadow
Orchard

@ 15s

0.3. 0
}0.134}
1.1.29}
2.2.23 
per acre


0.1.13
0.0. 8
1.0.24
1. 2. 5


1.2. 4
0.3. 4
1. 2. 0}
0.3.15}
0.1.29
1.2. 4
1.2.24
8.1.  0
per acre



          
0.13. 0
0.11. 3
1.  4. 3

0. 3. 0

0. 5. 6
0. 8 .6


0.13. 6
0. 4. 0

1. 1. 0

0. 7. 6
0.10. 6
2.16. 6
1.  2. 6
3.19. 0

Sir Joseph
 de Courcy
   L'Affan?
      Bart









Sheet 6
Henry B
   Ibbotson






























Assignees
 of Green &
   Wait?
8

9}
}
10}
}
12
13
14
15
16}
}
17
19


20
21
22
33
34

35}
36}
37

38
103




104
7 Acres & Pound
   Field Shaw
Pound Field
Pound Field
Eight Acres
Eight Acres
Five Acre Shaw
Cottage Oast House &
Prodlett Wood
Five Acre Plantation
Ten Acres
Ten Acres
Jerry Burchess Bank
Lady & Long Meadows
Moiety of River adjoining
   in part
Rushy Meadow
Horse Pasture
Horse Pasture
Rushy Meadow Shaw
Hilly Meadow
   Cherry Orchard
Pound &
   Rushy Meadow
Farm House Yard Bldgs
& Little Meadow
Owl Hole Wood
Three Cornered Wood
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 14a 2r 0p


Garden & Pasture
Water

Wood
Hops
Arable
Hops
Arable
Wood
---
Wood
Filberts
Hops
Arable
Wood
Meadow

Water
Meadow
Arable
Waste
Wood

Orchard

Meadow

Meadow
Wood
Wood

@ 15s


---
---


3.2.15
4.1.24}
4.1.34}
6.0. 4}
1.2.27}
0.2.31
0.2.26
1.3.16
4.0.26
4.0.36}
5.3.10}
3.2. 7
18.3. 0

0.2. 9
8.1. 3
3.3.11}
0.1.31}

0.3.30
6.1.23

5.3. 3

2.1. 5
6.1. 4
 1.2.12
96.0.27
per acre


0.1. 8
0.0.  9
0.1.17


0.11. 0

4. 6. 0

3.16. 0
0. 2. 0

0. 5. 6
2. 0. 0

4.16. 0
0. 5. 0
4. 4. 0


1.17. 0

1.15. 0

0. 3. 0
2.11. 0

1. 3. 0

0. 6. 0
0.12. 6
  0. 4. 6
28.17. 6
10.17. 6
39.15. 0

0. 2. 0
         
0. 2. 0
Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

John
   Mares
     Esq










Charles
   Masters









Sheet 7
The Poor 
 of Otham
Trustees
 the Rector &
Churchwardens
John
   Blinkhorn











Charles
   Masters










Cottagers
John
 Milner &
John
 Betts
23
24
25
26
28}
}
29

30




160
166
167
168
192

193
210




42
Further Meadow
First Meadow
Banky Field
Banky Field Rough
House Orchard
River abutting
House Barn Yard
   & Garden
Old Hop Garden
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 5a 2r 0p


Furze Field
House & Garden
Yard & Buildings
Banky Hop Garden
The Mount

The Mount
The Mount
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 7a 1r 37p


Gardens
Cottage Wheelwrights
   Shop & yard
Garden
Meadow
Meadow
Arable
Wood
Orchard
Water

Homest'd
Hops

@ 15s


Hops
Homest'd
Homest'd
Hops
Fruit
Plantation
Wood
Hops

@ 15s


---

---
---

1.2.24
0.3. 8
3.0. 0}
0.0.26}
2.1.13
0.0. 7

0.1. 8
 5.2.  8
13.3.14
per acre


 1.0.27
0.1.16
0.0.24
6.0. 2

2.1.26}
0.0.22}
 0.1. 8
10.2. 5
per acre


2.1.17

0.1. 0}
0.0.20}
2.2.37 

0. 7. 0
0. 3. 6

1. 7. 0
0.12. 6


0. 1. 6
2.11. 0
5.  3. 6
4.  2. 6
9.  5. 6

0.10. 6
0. 1. 0

2.15. 6


1. 4 .0
0.  2. 6
4.13. 6
 5.12. 3
10.  5. 9




0. 1. 3
0. 1. 3

Earl of
   Romney
Edward
 Cooper &
Richard
 Butcher











William
   Weekes















John
   Selby
72
73
74
75}
}
212
227
228
229
230
238




215
216
217}
}
218
219
220
221
222
223}
}
224
225




92a}
93 }
94
95
96
97}
}
House Barn & Yards
House Meadow
Three Cornered Mdw
---
---
Belts Wood Field Shaw
Belts Wood Field
Belts Wood Shaw
Heath Field Shaw
Heat Field
Bell Meadow
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 2a 1r 19p


Lower Field
Middle Field
Upper Field

Upper Shaw
House Meadow
House Barn & Yard
Orchard
Little Orchard
Old Hop Garden

Bicknor Wood Fld Shaw
Bicknor Wood Field
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 1a 1r 30p


Well Field

Rocky Field Shaw
Well Field Shaw
Mill Meadow
Mill Wood
Mill Wood
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 12a 1r 34p
Homest'd
Meadow
Meadow
Hops
Arable
Shaw
Arable
Shaw
Shaw
Arable
Meadow

@ 15s


Arable
Arable
Hops
Arable
Wood
Meadow
Homest'd
Fruit
Ley
Hops
Arable
Wood
Arable

@ 15s


Hops

Wood
Wood
Meadow
Fruit
Hops

@ 15s

0.3.17
2.0. 4
6.3. 7
2.1.19}
2.0.16}
0.1. 2}
4.0.29}
0.1.20}
0.0.17}
31.1. 0}
 1.0.  4

51.1.15
per acre


4.2. 5
3.1. 8
0.2.10}
1.0.30}
0.0.23}
2.3.16
0.1.32
0.3.16
2.3. 1
0.3.20}
2.1.36}
0.2. 0}
 3.3.  0}
24.0.37
per acre


10.2.34

2.3.11
2.0.29
1.3.36
3.2. 4}
 2.0.  0}
23.0.34
per acre


0. 7. 6
1. 3. 6

1.18. 0


1.17. 3

13.10. 3
 0. 4. 6
19. 1. 0
 1.15. 6
20.16. 6

1.16. 0
1. 6. 6


0.14. 3
0.11. 0

0. 6 .0
1. 2. 0

1. 6. 16

1.10. 9
8.13. 0
1.  1. 6

9.14. 6

5. 4 .6

0. 8 .6
0. 6. 0
0. 9.10

2.15. 0
9. 3.10
 9. 6.11
18.10. 9

Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Sheet 8
Earl of
   Romney



























Sarah
   Rayner

Assignees
 of Green &
   Wait?










John
   Honey


Earl of
   Romney





Thomas
 Bottom
Burren &
 Raplh

Sarah
   Rayner

98
99
100
101

102

246





233
235


77
226
231
234
237


232
236



51
52
53}
54}
55

Mill Wood Plantation
Mill Wood Plantation
Garden
Spring Pond
  Meadow & Stowage
3 Cottages Garden 
   & Waste
Water & site of
   Paper Mill
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 1a 2r 14p


---
---


Senacre Wood
Belts? Wood
Bicknor Wood
Forty Acre Wood
Wood


Cottage & Garden
2 Cottages & Gardens



Oast Yard   & Apple
Wardes?  Orchard
House Garden
   & Orchard
Wardes? 
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 5a 1r 14p

Hops
Hops
Garden

Meadow

---

---

@ 15s


Arable
Arable


Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood


---
---



Orchard
Orchard
Homest'd
& Orchard
Hops

@ 15s


1.1.25}
0.0.29}
0.0.12

0.3.28

0.1.14

0.1.26
3.1.14

per acre


0.1. 6
0.1. 3
0.2. 9

82.0. 7
5.0. 2
39.0.32
1.2. 0
   0.1.16
128.0.17

0.1. 1
0.2.10
0.3.11


0.2.18
1.2. 3

.3.24
5.1.25
8.1.30
per acre



0.15. 0
0. 0. 6

0. 5. 6



          
1. 1.  0
2. 4.10
2. 4.10

0. 2. 6
0. 2 .6
0. 5 .0

9. 9. 0
0. 7 .6
3.18. 0
0. 3. 0
  0.  0. 9
13.18. 3






0. 6. 6
0.16. 0

0. 8. 6
2.11. 6
4. 2. 6
4. 0. 0
8. 2. 6

Henry
   Simmons












Sheet 9
George
   Allfree












Thompson
 Sharp &
Weekes
Henry
 Simmonds
Edward
 Samson
56
57

58
61
142

161

162
163
164
209

59


60

63}
158}
East Wood Hop Gdn
Scaffold Grape
   & Hop Garden
House Meadow
Cottage Stale & Yard
Banky Meadow

Wood Plantation

Garden
House Yard & Bldgs
Banky Orchard
3 Cornered
   Hop Garden
3 Tenements
   & Gardens

Malt House

Cottage
   & Garden
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 13a 3r 19p
Hops
Hops &
 Fruit
Meadow
Building
Apples &
 Filberts
Apples &
 Filberts
Garden
Homest'd
Orchard
Hops &
  Fruit

Buildings

Buildings


Buildings

@ 15s

2.2.20

5.2.33
0.3.28
0.0.37

1.0.28

2.1.17
0.0.32}
0.0.35}
0.3.12

5.2. 6

0.0.22

0.0.23


  0.0.12
20.0.25
per acre

1. 7. 0

2.19. 0
0. 4. 6


0.12. 0

1. 4. 6

0. 2. 6
0. 7 .0

2.16. 6






         
9.13. 0
10. 8. 0
20. 1. 0

Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

William
   Saxby


Trustees of
 Maidstone
Blue Coat
 Charity
  School

Elizabeth
   Wiles










Rev John
  Ashburner
   (Glebe)
William
   Saxby


Assignees
 of Green &
   Wait?



Elizabeth
   Wiles










George
 Catt





Rev John
  Ashburner
Rev John
 Hollams
110
111


18





120
194
195
197
198
211
213
214




6
80

81
82
83
84
88

79
Otham Wood
---


Meadow





2 Cottages Gdn & Road
Three T Hop Garden
Three T Hop Garden
Fruit Plantation
Cottage & Garden
Hare Plain Field
Three T Field
Three T Shaw
Extraordinary Charge on
 Hops 2a 2r 7p


The Eighteen Acres
Barn Yard &
   House Meadow
House Meadow Shaw
Parson Field Shaw
Parsons Field
Long Meadow
Church & Church Yard

Parsonage House
   & Garden
Wood
Arable


Meadow





---
Wood
Hops
Fruit
---
Arable
Arable
Wood

@ 15s


Meadow

Meadow
Wood
Wood
Arable
Meadow
---


Garden etc

0.1.19
0.1.18
0.2.37

0.0.10





0.1.13
0.1. 3}
2.2. 7}
0.3.26
0.0.11
5.0. 8
4.1.38}
  0.0.32}
13.3.18
per acre


18.1.36

5.1. 9
0.1.25
0.2.30
6.1.27
4.3.26
0.1.31


 1.2.  7
38.0.31

0. 0. 9
0. 3. 3
0. 4. 0

0. 0. 4







1. 2. 3
0. 8 .4

2. 2. 6

1.17. 9
5.10.10
1.18.  2
7. 9.  0












15. 0. 0

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