06 February 2014

Ancestry adds West Yorkshire, England, Tax Valuation, 1910

This new database on Ancestry contains 616,598 indexed records, entries on the West Yorkshire Survey of Land Values required as a result of Lloyd George's 1909 People's Budget which sought to tax increases in land values.

Ancestry's information describing the records is sparse. Records include the name of both occupant and owner as well as information regarding the property. There's a more extensive description of the the similar records for Gloucestershire here.

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