MAN  c.1851 PLA

Land sale plan of ‘The Pasture’

Material: Paper

Size: 21*26 inches

Date: c.1851

Scale: 40’ per 1”

Condition: good

This plan is undated, but St Paul’s Church (constructed 1847-48) is clearly marked. The year 1847 was the date in which Manningham was incorporated into the new Borough of Bradford and I believe that the plan was drawn up soon after. The later Victorian terraced housing, now present in this location, is of course unbuilt. The land boundaries however are preserved by Church Street and Lily Street. The land that is being sold eventually had Rose Street built on it. The cottages that front the unnamed Church Street near where it leaves Heaton Road are those which are still present I imagine.

The area of interest is portion 178, The Pasture, on the Manningham Tithe map, and is somewhat over 2 acres in area. The landowners are trustees acting for the late James Brougham (Mary Brougham, Rev. Thomas Austin and Idle Ann (sic): the occupier was Moses Drake. Drake seems to occupy all the land cared for by these trustees and Cudworth states that he had a house and barn at the bottom of Church Street so was presumably a farmer. Cudworth also records that the trustees sold much of the Brougham estate to Sir Titus Salt and Henry Forbes in 1851, so this is the date I have taken for the plan.

With the help of this eminent Victorian historian it is possible to work out the history of this plot. It was part of the land belonging to the well-known Northrop family. The last male member, William Northrop, died in 1800, aged 63. His daughter Mary Northrop had married James Brougham. On the death of her mother in 1820 Mary and her sister Ann Northrop, who had married a John Idle, inherited. I assume their respective husbands initially befitted but both were outlived by their wives.