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1829 Map of  the Manors of Dulcote and Wellesley 

"and the messuages1, lands and tenements belonging to ... such manors."

 

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This map was developed by John Paine Tudway and Joseph Lovell 

Colour legend
Green =  land held by freehold (legal ownership and control of a building or piece of land for an unlimited time)
Brown = land held by leasehold for lives (the legal right to live in or use a building, piece of land for an agreed number of people's lives)
Pink =    land held by leasehold for years (the legal right to live in or use a building, piece of land for an agreed number of years))
Yellow = land held by copyhold (land held without formal title deed but by
the record of the manor court.)
White =  land not held by Tudway or Lovell (presumably)

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1   an old legal term meaning a dwelling-house, garden, outbuildings, orchard, courtyard
2   this map is available at the Public Records for Somerset. Somerset Record Office. Taunton, Somerset in the Tudway Papers