Land Value Duties

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The Finance Act of 1910 introduced a short-lived tax on land values often known as "Lloyd George's Domesday".  The final records, consisting of plans and field books are held at the National Archives. Their website includes a useful guide to using Valuation Office records

The working plans,1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey maps coloured and marked up with plot numbers to help identify areas of different ownership are held at Cambridgeshire Archives together with the valuation books which give details of the owner, occupier, extent and rateable value of each property.  These can be very useful if you are trying to establish ownership of a particular property or piece of land aroud 1910

We also have the original valuations act forms ('Form 37'), which give the valuers' provisional evaluations. These were formerly held by the District Valuation offices and copies of would have been sent to the owner of each property.

Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire Archives has the valuation (or LVD) books for the whole of Huntingdonshire (with the exceptions of Offord Cluny and Offord Darcy, which do not survive), many of the maps. and the valuation act forms (accession 2808).

The valuation books for the Peterborough area are now held at Northamptonshire Record Office, but sadly not the working sheets, which are believed to have been destroyed in 1968.

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire Archives has the valuation (or LVD) books  books for the pre-1974 county of Cambridgeshire including the Isle of Ely and most of the 'working sheet' maps. We also have the original valuations act forms  for Cambridge, South Cambridgeshire and East Cambridgeshire (R79/077) Fenland and Thorney (R79/081) and the Wisbech area (R89/043).

 

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Last updated: Thursday 31 January 2013, 11:53

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