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Leases and related papers relating to leasehold properties in the Breconshire estate, including in Brecon and in the parishes of Bronllys, Cantref, Defynnog, Garthbrengi, Glasbury (co. Rad.), Hay-on-Wye, Llandyfaelog Fach, Llanddew, Llan-faes, Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Llanfilo, Llansbyddyd, Llys-wen, Llywel, Maesmynys, Merthyr Cynog, Penderyn, St David, and Vaynor.

Papers relating to the purchase and sale of property by the Tredegar estate in Breconshire. Most of the papers relate to the series of Breconshire sales of 1915.

Collection books record money as it is received. This information is later transferred to the appropriate audit books, rent ledgers and other accounts. Consequently collecton books do not usually contain any unique information, and frequently do not survive as complete series.

Tredegar estate correspondence, arranged into copy letter books, 1869-1905 (AEC 1), two series of letters received, 1794-1939 (AEC 2-3), and a series of notices of assignments of leases, mortgages etc., 1900-1906 (AEC 4).

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.

Financial records of the Breconshire estate, comprising rentals (called audit books by the Tredegar estate), 1758-1927, draft and copy audit books, 1872-1915, farm rent ledgers, 1867-1921, Palleg, Brecon and Dderw estate rent ledgers, 1867-1941, rent collection books, 1868-1937, cash books, 1864-1940, surveyor's bills, 1862-1890, employee records, 1889-1935, taxation records, 1910-c.1936, and vouchers, 1850-1938.

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 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).

Ruperra home farm accounts and other records.

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).

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 the collection of tithes on the Breconshire estate.

Records relating to office administration.

The Glamorgan ledgers begin with the reorganisation of the Tredegar estates in 1846. Almost from the start the ledgers are created in groups, with a single ledger for 1846-1852, two volumes 1852-1862, and a block of four volumes started in 1862. A number of volumes were then started, from 1869, apparently as needed, until a block of five volumes were started 1892-1894. The creation of a separate series of Cardiff audit books in 1877 seems to go un-noticed among the ledgers; although ledgers may have become either predominently rural or predominently urban, the title 'Cardiff ground rents' first appears on a spine in 1893, and even then other 1893 volumes of rents in Splott and Roath continue to be intitled 'Glamorgan estates'.

Glamorgan estate rental surveys, 1820-1879 (AGS 1) and reports and valuations of properties, 1804-1897 (AGS 2).