Land Tax Records (3)

Land tax records for Monmouthshire, 1939-1949, comprising collectors' duplicates and schedules of deficiencies for Abergavenny (Rother Street Ward), 1944-1946, Llangattock Lingoed and Llanvetherine, 1939-1946, Oldcastle, 1939-1949, Rockfield, Goytre, Llanhilleth, Llanvihangel Pontymoile, Mamhilad, Panteg Hamlet, Penrhos and Grosmont, 1939-1946, Llangattock Lingoed, 1941-1949, Llangattock Vibon Avel, Llangua, Llantillio Crossenny, Llanvihangel Ystern Llewern, Skenfrith and St Maughans, 1939-1946, Kilgwrrwg, 1941-1946, Trelleck Grange, 1939-1941; land tax duplicates summary for Panteg Hamlet, 1949-1950.

The Land Tax was a national tax levied on landowners from the 1690s. During the 18th century, it evolved into a tax assessed on land, buildings, and various forms of rent. Land Tax was abolished in 1963. Land Tax assessments record the owner and occupier of the land, location of the tenement, area of land, and rent due. The Finance Act 1910 included provisions for taxing any increase in the value of land, by undertaking a baseline valuation of all land owned in England and Wales in 1909 against which subsequent sale prices could be compared. The valuation was undertaken by District Valuation Offices of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and involved the compilation of Field Books and maps listed all property; a 'Domesday' book summarising this information, and various Forms.

Arranged into the following: Abergavenny division; Monmouth division; Pontypool division; Raglan division; Skenfrith division; Trelleck division.

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Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, Land Tax Records (D 421), catalogue; The National Archives research guides (www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk), viewed 24 August 2004; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Gwent Record Office.

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