Letterbook of H. F. Cotterell, surveyor of Bath

Reference Number: PP/509/1
Level of Description: Item
Title: Letterbook of H. F. Cotterell, surveyor of Bath
Date: 1828-1832
Extent: Pages: 12
Description: Photocopied extracts (made in 1991) from a volume in the possession of Mr. W. A. Burraston of 39 Brook Road, Twerton, Bath which contains correspondence dated with owners of land required by the Avon & Gloucestershire Railway Company, business on behalf of Bath Turnpike Trustees, the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and the sale and letting of various properties in Somerset and Wiltshire on behalf of private owners (including especially the Orchardleigh estate). The extracts comprise;

1) Examples of correspondence relating to roads and railways 1828, pp. 1-4
2) New road and ha-ha in Bath Park (Commons) 1831, pp. 223-224 (Royal Crescent ha-ha)
3) Rental value of properties in Laura Place 1831, pp. 286-287
4) Proposed site of Clifton Suspension Bridge 1831, pp. 298-299
5) Award in dispute between Bath Parks Committee and contractor of new road and paths in Crescent Fields 1831, p. 349
Subject: Bridges
Land development
Land tenure
Land value
Landowners
Letter books
Local railways
Roads
Sales of land