Durham City Deeds

Deeds (and other relevant papers) of properties in the older parts of Durham City, i.e. Allergate, Crossgate, Grape Lane, Framwellgate, Milburngate, Sadler Street, New Elvet, Hallgarth Street, Church Street and Flass, Sutton and Waddington Streets, also Silver and South Streets, Durham and Sedgefield, and Co. Durham miscellanea.

See Scope and content.

They are arranged in bundles by property, and then in chronological order.

Open for consultation.

Received about 1940, in circumstances now undocumented.

Durham City Records Deeds by Mrs J.L. Drury, (1978-79), indexed, available as an online catalogue at online catalogue

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Transferred from the University Library in 1964 to the University's Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic, which in 1990 became part of Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections department.

Towers Papers and University of Durham Records, Surveyor's Deposit: contain deeds etc. relating to some of the same and adjoining properties.