The Estate of Joseph & William Wilson (Snuff Mills, Sharrow & Ecclesall etc.)

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Plan of the Snuff Mill, Cutler's Wheel, adjoining the Dam etc at Sharrow Moor, occupied by Joseph Wilson and Edwd. Anderton. 1764.

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Map of the Estate of Joseph and William Wilson, Ecclesall Road, 1820. 

The watermark is 1819: Ecclesall Road (finished 1817) has been made; and J Wilson and Co. had nearly all their lands surveyed in 1820.

Also shows Hunter House and Hunters Bar. 

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The estate of Joseph and William Wilson. Plan of Clifford, Psalter Lane, and Sharrow Mills, [c. 1820]

Shows Clifford (with pleasure ground and gardens), workhouse [on Psalter Lane], West Brook, River Porter, weir, Sharrow Mills (with dam and banks and stack yard), lodge, school, [Ecclesall Road], [Sharrow Vale Road].

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Plan of several estates in the townships of Ecclesall Bierlow and Nether Hallam, the property of Joseph and William Wilson [c. 1825-1830]

The watermark is 1825. 

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Map of the Estate belonging to the late William Wilson lying between Sharrow Mills and Endcliff Woods made to shew to whom each part now belongs, [watermarked 1838]

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Field names, etc. not marked. Based on arc03953 and arc03954 they are:

Wood Field, Long Field, Spring Field, Square Field, Upper Delf Field, Endcliffe Wood, Endcliffe Vale Road, Clarke House Road (sic) later Brocco Bank, Turnpike Road [Ecclesall Road], Occupation Road, Brocco Bank Allotment, Botanic Garden, Nether field, Great Tom Field, Wadbro rsquo; Close, quarry, Little Tom Field, Brocco Bank Close, River Porter, Lower Delf Field, [Hunters Bar] Toll Bar, Hunter House, Lescar Wheel, Lescar Wheel Road [later Sharrow Vale Road, homestead, [Sharrow Snuff Mills], Walsh Stubbings, The Meadow, Meadow of Walsh Stubbings, Holme Meadow.

[Snuff Mill Lane, Stalker Lees Road, General Cemetery, Rosedale Road, Cemetery Avenue, Harefield Road, Denham Road, Harland Road, Neill Road, Eastwood Road. Meadow Terrace, Clarkehouse Road, Botanical Gardens, Endcliffe Vale Road, Botanical Road, Rossington Road, Wiseton Road, Newington Road, Endliffe Terrace Road, Endcliffe Rise Road, Wilson Road, Dover Road, Wadbrough Road, Southgrove Road, Broomgrove Road, Collegiate Crescent, Thompson Road, Khartoum Road, Walton Road, Bristol Road, Bagshot Street, Bruce Road, Westbrook Bank, Stewart Road, Ratcliffe Road, Jarrow Road, Gordon Road, Lynton Road, Wayland Road, Bowood Road].

 

Map of the Estate belonging to the late William Wilson lying between Sharrow Mills and Endcliffe Wood, made to shew each parcel of land described in the purchase deeds, [Watermarked 1844] 

Shows Toll Bar and position of Gates. 

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Map of the Estate belonging to the late William Wilson lying between Sharrow Mills and Endcliffe Wood made to shew to whom each part now belongs, c. 1850. 

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[Lysanderix]

What was once the home of part of the Wilson family became Middlewood Hall Hotel. I believe it is now a private residence.A scion of the family ,one HJS Wilson, was Head of Firth Park Grammar School in the late 1950s/ early 1960s.

[southside]

The History of Wilson's & Co: website link  https://sharrowmills.com/pages/our-history

Joseph Wilson lived at Highfield/Brightfield House on Sharrow Lane in the 1760s.

This became the Charnwood Hotel in the 1980s, now turned into a block of apartments (Wisteria Court)

 

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A plan of several footways near Sharrow Mills proposed to be discontinued or changed, measured for Joseph Wilson. 1820.

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"The Roads proposed to be discontinued coloured red, those proposed to be substituted for them are coloured yellow" 

Shows Hunters Bar, Sharrow Moor Bottom, [Sharrow Vale Road, Ecclesall Road, Psalter Lane, River Porter, Cemetery Road], Broomhall Mill, Sharrow Mills, Sharrow Head, Porter Brook, Chesterfield Roads, Little Sheffield, water place [where Ecclesall Road met Chesterfield [London] Road], Stalker Wheel, Brocco Bank Wood, Clarkehosues, [Brocco Bank], Endcliffe Wood.