ECCLESHILL Maps & plans, c.1865

ECC c.1865 PLA [a & b]: Reserve maps 2.119: BHM 1999 B28

Tracing paper: Scale: unknown: Size:76*45 cm: Condition: poor

Keywords: Eccleshill, Scott-Stanhope, Jowett, 1860s

Annotated on back: ‘tracing from plan of Mitchell’s coal lease’. Local historian Ken Kenzie says that at this date John or Jonathan Mitchell was a coal merchant who lived at Eccleshill Bank. He ran Park Pits which were sold in 1860 when he was in his 70s. Other Eccleshill pits were: Idle & Eccleshill Coal Co at Springwell Field and Firth’s Averingcliffe Colliery. No collieries are marked on this map. In the absence of a dated lease I have tried to date the map from the names of the land-owners. When Walter Scott-Stanhope of Eccleshill Hall (1757-1844) died aged 88 the estate passed to his nephew George Scott-Stanhope (Lt-colonel in the Indian Army); he built a larger house and the hall was demolished in 1878. I assume ‘Colonel Stott’ is this Lt-Col. George Scott-Stanhope who died in 1874. James Atkinson-Jowett (1817-1886) was the owner of the Clockhouse Estate, in Manningham or Heaton. I assume he inherited when his father Nathan died in 1861. Wilks Greaves was a builder and mason who in was living Eccleshill around 1835-1871. The map must then date between 1861 and 1874.