Malham Moor tax 1915/16

It isn’t known where this information originally came from, it was recorded on a scrap of paper in the MLHG archives and appears to be a Land tax assessment. It has been transcribed “as is”, and despite the strange entries at the end which have the date 1918 and the fact that the arithmetic doesn’t seem to add up, it is a useful list of the occupiers of the farms and properties on Malham Moor at the time.

Township of Malham Moor
Rateable value as assessed for Income tax for the years 1915-1916 at 3s in the £
Description of Property	Name of Occupier	Annual Value
House	John Winskill	£12	10s
Low Trenhouse Farm	John Chester	£122	10s
….eston Pastures	John Nelson	£35
House	Edward Banks	£3	6s
Capon Hall	Abraham Banks	£74	8s
Water House Farm	Walter Morrison	£140
Tarn Hall	Walter Morrison	£66	14s
Buildings, grounds & lake	Walter Morrison	£136
Land	Walter Morrison	£3	10s
High Trenhouse	Henry Coates	£245
Tennant Gill	Henry Walker	£148	15s
Darnbrook	John Coates	£392
Rainscar	Thomas Coates	£145	12s
Rough Close	Edward Robinson	£70
West Side	John Hoyle	£161	15s
Capon Hall	William Parker	£136
Lee Gate	John Nelson	£193
New House	Thomas Carr	£39	8s
Middle House	John & Herbert Carr	£209	18s
Shooting on Black Hill		£5
Plantations	Walter Morrison	£2	8s
Manorial Right		£5
School		£1
Town Head Farm – 1918	Thomas Cogill (106 acres)	£75
Cove Top Pasture – 1918	Thomas Cogill (24 acres)	£15
Little Grisedale Pasture – 1918	Thomas Cogill (11 acres)	£8	10s
Total collected for Land Tax & Income Tax 1915-1916	£411	18s 9 ½d