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Financial records of the Breconshire estate, comprising rentals (called audit books by the Tredegar estate), 1758-1927, draft and copy audit books, 1872-1915, farm rent ledgers, 1867-1921, Palleg, Brecon and Dderw estate rent ledgers, 1867-1941, rent collection books, 1868-1937, cash books, 1864-1940, surveyor's bills, 1862-1890, employee records, 1889-1935, taxation records, 1910-c.1936, and vouchers, 1850-1938.

Papers relating to the purchase and sale of property by the Tredegar estate in Breconshire. Most of the papers relate to the series of Breconshire sales of 1915.

Letters received and copies of letters sent by the agents of the Breconshire estate, relating to the administration of the estate.

Leases and related papers relating to leasehold properties in the Breconshire estate, including in Brecon and in the parishes of Bronllys, Cantref, Defynnog, Garthbrengi, Glasbury (co. Rad.), Hay-on-Wye, Llandyfaelog Fach, Llanddew, Llan-faes, Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Llanfilo, Llansbyddyd, Llys-wen, Llywel, Maesmynys, Merthyr Cynog, Penderyn, St David, and Vaynor.

Records relating to office administration.

The records comprise valuations of the Breconshire, Palleg and Dderw estates, and of the estate in Brecon and Ystradgynlais.

Records relating to the the collection of tithes on the Breconshire estate.

Papers relating to two legal actions relating to the Breconshire estate.

Inventories of household stuff at Dderw.

Ruperra Castle household accounts, 1715-1724 (ADR /1), repairs accounts, 1784-1791, 1916-1922 (ADR /2-3), and inventory, 1929 (ADR /4)

Ruperra home farm accounts and other records.

Records relating to the management of the Tredegar household. For convenience, Lord Tredegar's private account cash books and audit books have been included here, although they apply equally to the demense and other estate interests.

Records of the Tredegar demense, which before the development of the Rhiwderyn estate works c.1900 (see ADY) was accounted responsible for at least some of the landlord's work on tenanted properties. Also records of the Tredegar granary, 1816-1848 (ADU /4, 6), Lord Tredegar's stud farm at Coedcernyw, 1825-1901 (ADU /7), and estate employees, 1882-1907 (ADU /11).

Tredegar estate correspondence, arranged into copy letter books, 1869-1905 (AEC 1), two series of letters received, 1794-1939 (AEC 2-3), and a series of notices of assignments of leases, mortgages etc., 1900-1906 (AEC 4).

Various records relating to the employment of estate staff.

The series contains records relating to repairs and improvements to agricultural and town properties in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, including new roads and sewers in Newport and Cardiff.

Records relating to the exploitation of the mineral resources of the estate, plus a few items of wider industrial interests, gathered together for convenience.

A volume intitled 'Minute book', containing minutes of consultations of J.I.S. [probably John Ireland Storrar] with Lord Tredegar concerning estate affairs, including Belle Vue House, Newport (formerly used by the Belgian Refugees Committee), the letting of Newport Castle, athletics grounds at Cardiff and Newport, land for workmen's dwellings (garden city schemes), estate policy on the disposal of public houses, the presentation of land for burial grounds, chapels, churches, institutes and public parks, the presentation of Bedwellte Show Ground, stop-net fishery on the river Usk, work for the unemployed, the Bishop's Palace at Newport, Blackwood Miners' Institute & Library, and Messrs Cashmore's (ship breaker's yard?) on the river Ebbw.