File 55/8 - Mines, Llanenddwyn, Llanddwywe, Llanelltud and Llanaber

Lease by Queen Victoria, represented by Edward Stafford Howard, a Commissioner of Woods, to William Richard Baron Harlech of coal, metals and metallic minerals and ores, limestone and slate on or under land in the parishes of Llanenddwyn, Llanddwywe and Llanelltud, Merioneth, and draft, 1894; a licence granted by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech to Harry Johnson Wright for the mining of manganese at Graig Issa and Graig Ucha, Llanenddwyn, 1916; royalty accounts, 1893-1895; a copy of the Enclosure Act for Llanaber, Llanddwywe, Llanenddwyn, Llanbedr and Llanfair, 1810; letters mainly to Longueville and Co. from the Dyffryn Mining Company Limited, the Office of Woods, Macqueen Bros, Samuel Pope QC and W.H. More, concerning the Dyffryn Company at Graig Issa, ascertainment of figures for the Crown Receiver’s accounts, claims for royalties due to Lord Harlech and to the Crown, and Lord Harlech’s mineral lease in Llanaber Inclosure, 1894-1896; a map (tracing) of the allotments of common [made post 1810 Act] in the parishes of Llanddwywe and Llanenddwyn; and 6 inch ordnance survey maps, Sheets X, XXVI, 1888. The file also contains draft deeds relating to a wooden bungalow at The Morfa, Harlech, originally leased by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech to George Reid of Stafford, 1925-1931; and enclosures, 1895-1947.