In 1910-1911, following the Finance Act of 1910, the 1:2500
scale Ordnance Survey maps were used as the basis for a short-lived
tax on incremental land values (known as "Lloyd George's
Domesday"). Inland Revenue staff wrote survey numbers on the maps
for each plot of land, which were then keyed to volumes containing
details of owners, occupiers, extent and rateable values.
Huntingdon Record Office holds the Land Values Duty books for
the whole of Huntingdonshire (with the exceptions of Offord Cluny
and Offord Darcy, which do not survive) and many of the maps. The
maps held here are the 'working sheets' only: surviving 'record
maps' are at the National Archives in Kew. In addition, Huntingdon
Record Office also have the original valuations act forms ('Form
37'), which give the valuers' provisional evaluations, and copies
of which were sent to the owner of each property (accession
2808).
The Land Values Duty books for the Peterborough area are now
held at Northamptonshire Record Office, but sadly not the working
sheets, which are believed to have been destroyed in 1968.
The most useful records are the Field Books, which are still
held at The National Archives, class IR58.
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