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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.

Surveys and related materials relating to more than one estate or to unspecified estates, comprising surveys and rental surveys, 1730-1925 (AES 1), reports and valuations, 1899-1921 (AES 2), inventories of deeds and papers, 1738-1950 (AES 3), and maps and plans, 1782-1957 (AES 4).

Records relating to the management of the estate's woodlands, and the sale of trees and coppice for timber, cordwood, bark, poles and smart hoops. Although individual sales often related to woodlands within a single county, the woodlands appear to have been at least semi-detatched from the administration of the individual county-based estates, at least in the case of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. All records relating specifically to the estate's woodlands have therefore been gathered together here for convenience.

The Glamorgan ledgers begin with the reorganisation of the Tredegar estates in 1846. Almost from the start the ledgers are created in groups, with a single ledger for 1846-1852, two volumes 1852-1862, and a block of four volumes started in 1862. A number of volumes were then started, from 1869, apparently as needed, until a block of five volumes were started 1892-1894. The creation of a separate series of Cardiff audit books in 1877 seems to go un-noticed among the ledgers; although ledgers may have become either predominently rural or predominently urban, the title 'Cardiff ground rents' first appears on a spine in 1893, and even then other 1893 volumes of rents in Splott and Roath continue to be intitled 'Glamorgan estates'.

Collection books record money as it is received. This information is later transferred to the appropriate audit books, rent ledgers and other accounts. Consequently collecton books do not usually contain any unique information, and frequently do not survive as complete series.

The audit books are the annual settled accounts between the agent and the landowner, including the rental account. Most estates simply call these accounts rentals.

Glamorgan estate rental surveys, 1820-1879 (AGS 1) and reports and valuations of properties, 1804-1897 (AGS 2).

Deeds and other papers relating to the purchase or sale of properties in Monmouthshire.

Records relating to improvements and capital expenditure on the Monmouthshire estate. Many of the records relate to the sea walls between the Wentlloog Levels and the Severn Estuary.

Surveys, rental surveys, customals, schedules and particulars of leases, and reports and valuations on individual properties of the Monmouthshire estate and its predecessors.