THE BETHERSDEN TITHE APPORTIONMENTS OF 1840 –GABRIELS HOOK FARM AS AN EXEMPLAR
‘The Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 was an important measure of ecclesiastical, social and economic reform that commuted arbitrary and uncertain levies of tithes in kind into varying annual rent charges regulated on a uniform national basis.’ 1This major undertaking has left a wealth of very useful historical information so that the property of today…