Allendale, Viscounts, landed estates
Other Business Names:
- Beaumont family
- W B & Co
- Sopwith, Thomas
- Bewick, Thomas J
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Durham, Durham, North East, England
- Northumberland, Northumberland, North East, England
- West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Extraction
Coal extraction
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Property activities
Landed estate management
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Extraction
Lead extraction
Notes:
Beaumont family, later Viscounts Allendale, acquired estate at Bretton from Wentworth/Blackett family. By 1830s had grown their landed estates to include vast land holdings in West Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. Included much coal extraction and lead extraction. A vehicle was the WB Co and their lead mine consultants were Thomas Sopwith, 1803-79, and Thomas J Bewick, 1821-97
Publications:
- Beaumont family's estates in the nineteenth century by Ward, John T
- Bretton, the Beaumonts and a Bureaucracy. A West Yorkshire estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Wright, S J
- Five landed estates in Yorkshire and the development of coal mining during the nineteenth century by Hartley, W P
- History of Lead Mining in the Pennines by Raistrick, Arthur, & Bernard Jennings
- Lead mining in East and West Allendale by Coombes, L C
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Beaumont family
- W B & Co
- Sopwith, Thomas
- Bewick, Thomas J
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Durham, Durham, North East, England
- Northumberland, Northumberland, North East, England
- West Bretton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Extraction Coal extraction
- Property activities Landed estate management
- Extraction Lead extraction
Notes:
Beaumont family, later Viscounts Allendale, acquired estate at Bretton from Wentworth/Blackett family. By 1830s had grown their landed estates to include vast land holdings in West Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland. Included much coal extraction and lead extraction. A vehicle was the WB Co and their lead mine consultants were Thomas Sopwith, 1803-79, and Thomas J Bewick, 1821-97Publications:
- Beaumont family's estates in the nineteenth century by Ward, John T
- Bretton, the Beaumonts and a Bureaucracy. A West Yorkshire estate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Wright, S J
- Five landed estates in Yorkshire and the development of coal mining during the nineteenth century by Hartley, W P
- History of Lead Mining in the Pennines by Raistrick, Arthur, & Bernard Jennings
- Lead mining in East and West Allendale by Coombes, L C