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TitlePoor and general district rate books
DescriptionAssessments of the valuation of rateable properties and land in the parish of Cambridge for poor relief levied and collected by the Overseers of the Poor. A portion was given to the Borough Council as the Borough Fund. Volumes are arranged street by street with different districts split between volumes.

From 1900-1914 volume one contains entries for the north and centre of town including, St Giles, St Mary the Great, St Mary the Less, St Edward, St Botolph, Holy Trinity. Volume two contains entries for a section of St Andrew the Less from Newmarket Road, to Gwydir Street. Volume three contains entries for Mill Road, New Town and Romsey Town.

Each property is given a consecutive numerical reference, the name of the occupier; the name of the owner; a description of the property; a location or situation of the property; gross estimated rental value, the amount of rate to be collected and columns for first and second collections.

A report drawn up in response to a letter from the Local Government Board received 27 Feb 1912, recommended that the same individual be employed by the Overseers of the Poor and the Corporation to collect both rates half yearly to save duplication of work and expense. From 1914 both the poor rate and the general district rate collections are recorded in the same rate books. Following the city's boundary change, from 1914, rate books are created for the parish of Cambridge Without within Chesterton Union resulting in four volumes of rates: volume one contains details of university property and the centre of the town; volume two contains the residential areas by the station including streets off Mill Road, Hills Road and Newmarket Road; volume three contains the residential area to the north of town including Huntingdon Road, Milton Road, Victoria Street to Chesterton, and volume four contains rates for the Cambridge Without including the residential area to the south of the town including Hills Road, Cherry Hinton Road to Fulbrooke Road. The Guardians of the Poor ceased to exist in 1930 following the Local Government Act. Rates for the town were then levied by the Corporation.
Date1900-1926
CreatorNameMunicipal Corporation of Cambridge
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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