Catalogue description Content: Folios 96-98. Letter from W B Baring [MP Staffordshire] to George Nicholls,...

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Details of MH 12/11196/32
Reference: MH 12/11196/32
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Content: Folios 96-98. Letter from W B Baring [MP Staffordshire] to George Nicholls, [Poor Law Commissioner], enclosing a letter from a gentleman of Wolstanton. Letter from Edward Wood, Porthill, Wolstanton, to [W B Baring MP Staffordshire] dated 26 February 1838, complaining that the Poor Law Commission has not yet answered the memorial Baring presented on behalf of Wolstanton parish authorities and asks Baring to act at the earliest opportunity to present in the strongest terms the opposition of the ratepayers to a union with Burslem on the grounds that the benefits of scale would not accrue to a union of that size and that unless other parishes were to be involved the jealousy between Wolstanton and Burslem would be prejudicial to achieving the advantages which could be obtained only from a union with a population of 40,000-50,000. Wolstanton contains 10,379 acres rated at 2s9d per acre; Burslem has 2,700 acres rated at 20s per acre, but the population of each is about 14,000. Tunstall is the only township in the parish of Wolstanton (an inconsiderable proportion of the whole) which has any manufactures, the rest is agricultural. It appears almost an act of injustice to form a union with Burslem alone thus depriving Wolstanton ratepayers of the benefits to which they are entitled under the new Poor Law. Unless, therefore, Burslem can show that this union will be of a greater benefit than the original proposal to unite Newcastle, Keele, Audley, Betley, Balterley with Wolstanton [and Burslem] the ratepayers of Wolstanton prefer the larger union as first suggested. Paper number: 2374/C/1838. Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 28 February 1838
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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