Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
Estate Records: Hafod Uchtryd Estate

Acc. 1301

Ref: H

Hafod Estate Collection, Series Level Descriptions

TITLE: H/A
DATE: 1733-1871
SIZE: 18 files (bundles); 210 items
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: Series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents covering the period up to and including Thomas Johnes' ownership of the Hafod Estate.

TITLE: H/B
DATE: 1595-1871
SIZE: 14 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: Series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents relating to the Duke’s of Newcastle period of ownership of the Estate. The Duke of Newcastle purchased the Estate in 1835 and sold it to Henry Hoghton in 1846.

TITLE: H/C
DATE: 1842-1871
SIZE: 3 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents relating to Henry Hoghton’s period of ownership of the Hafod Estate (1846-1857).

TITLE: H/D
DATE: 1844-1888
SIZE: 15 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: Series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents relating to William Chambers’ period of ownership of the Estate (1856-1871).

TITLE: H/E
DATE:
SIZE: 13 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: Series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents relating to John Waddingham’s period of ownership of the Estate (1871 onwards). After Waddingham's death in 1890 the Estate was inherited by his younger son Thomas James Waddingham; file H/E12 contains documents from that period.

TITLE: H/F
DATE: 1873 1875
SIZE: 13 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: Series
NATURE AND CONTENT: Managing the Hafod Estate. Correspondence between John Waddingham, Rawson and Best (his solicitors) and other parties. Also a variety of other papers: accounts, legal documents, miscellaneous notes and scribblings.

TITLE: H/G
DATE: 1929-2000
SIZE: 7 files (bundles)
MEDIUM: see item level description
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: series
NATURE AND CONTENT: R. Holder’s collection of documents: correspondence with the Forestry Commission (the current owners of a large part of Hafod) and other parties, maps, publications and miscellaneous. Raymond Ewart Holder was a builder from Eltham, London, who had purchased Myherin Forest freehold in the 1970s; the forest had been leased by Thomas James Waddingham to the Forestry Commission on a 999 year lease in 1929 (see H/G6/3). Holder sought to have a larger influence on the administration of the land and appealed to the highest authorities to achieve this, but was largely unsuccessful. This series documents his protracted negotiations with the Forestry Commission and his efforts to enlist the help of his MP, Peter Bottomley, various Welsh Office ministers and even the Queen. The Cefn Croes windfarm development is situated on this land and there are some documents relating to it in this series.