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Records relating to the management of the estate's woodlands, and the sale of trees and coppice for timber, cordwood, bark, poles and smart hoops. Although individual sales often related to woodlands within a single county, the woodlands appear to have been at least semi-detatched from the administration of the individual county-based estates, at least in the case of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. All records relating specifically to the estate's woodlands have therefore been gathered together here for convenience.

Records relating to the exploitation of the mineral resources of the estate, plus a few items of wider industrial interests, gathered together for convenience.

Records relating to the management of the Tredegar household. For convenience, Lord Tredegar's private account cash books and audit books have been included here, although they apply equally to the demense and other estate interests.

Records of the Tredegar demense, which before the development of the Rhiwderyn estate works c.1900 (see ADY) was accounted responsible for at least some of the landlord's work on tenanted properties. Also records of the Tredegar granary, 1816-1848 (ADU /4, 6), Lord Tredegar's stud farm at Coedcernyw, 1825-1901 (ADU /7), and estate employees, 1882-1907 (ADU /11).

Surveys, rental surveys, customals, schedules and particulars of leases, and reports and valuations on individual properties of the Monmouthshire estate and its predecessors.

Surveys and related materials relating to more than one estate or to unspecified estates, comprising surveys and rental surveys, 1730-1925 (AES 1), reports and valuations, 1899-1921 (AES 2), inventories of deeds and papers, 1738-1950 (AES 3), and maps and plans, 1782-1957 (AES 4).

Ruperra home farm accounts and other records.

Ruperra Castle household accounts, 1715-1724 (ADR /1), repairs accounts, 1784-1791, 1916-1922 (ADR /2-3), and inventory, 1929 (ADR /4)

The series contains records relating to repairs and improvements to agricultural and town properties in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, including new roads and sewers in Newport and Cardiff.

A volume intitled 'Minute book', containing minutes of consultations of J.I.S. [probably John Ireland Storrar] with Lord Tredegar concerning estate affairs, including Belle Vue House, Newport (formerly used by the Belgian Refugees Committee), the letting of Newport Castle, athletics grounds at Cardiff and Newport, land for workmen's dwellings (garden city schemes), estate policy on the disposal of public houses, the presentation of land for burial grounds, chapels, churches, institutes and public parks, the presentation of Bedwellte Show Ground, stop-net fishery on the river Usk, work for the unemployed, the Bishop's Palace at Newport, Blackwood Miners' Institute & Library, and Messrs Cashmore's (ship breaker's yard?) on the river Ebbw.

The records comprise surveys (called terriers by the TWC), 1852-1904 (ANS 1), plan books, 1842-1882 (ANS 2), lease books, 1883-1958 (ANS 3), and reports and valuations of individual properties, 1854-1913 (ANS 4).

Leases and related papers, including correspondence, mortgages, tenancy agreements, notices of assignments of leases, notices of assignments of mortgages, and notices to quit.

The financial records of the Tredegar Wharf Company and its successors. The bulk of the records - audit books, cash books, collection books, rent ledgers - relate to the collection of rents. Other accounts include wages, repairs, improvements, tonnages, wharfages and keelages.

Correspondence of the Tredegar Wharf Company and its successors

The tithe records mainly relate to the Basaleg rectory tithe collection, 1743-1804, including the Basaleg hamlets of Dyffryn Lower, Dyffryn Higher, Graig and Rogerstone, and the parishes of Coedcernyw, Henllys, Risca and St Brides, and the Mynyddislwyn and Bedwellte tithe collection, 1790-1839. The two collections appear to have been merged in about 1862. -- The Basaleg, Mynyddislwyn and Bedwellty tithe rental for 1844 (formerly Tredegar MSS 465), is not found.

Records relating to improvements and capital expenditure on the Monmouthshire estate. Many of the records relate to the sea walls between the Wentlloog Levels and the Severn Estuary.