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The Common Room / Re: Mineral rights
« on: Thursday 25 October 18 19:43 BST (UK)  »
Thank you avm228. My grandfather's name was Charles Hill (1842-1931) and the house was called Boundary House in High Street Luddington, built on the river bed of the old river Don.

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The Common Room / Re: Mineral rights
« on: Thursday 25 October 18 17:27 BST (UK)  »
Thank you to everyone who has posted a comment. I agree it seems unlikely. In my village in the Midlands, the coal mine went under the river and the Norman church. It just seems an unlikely thing for my father to have made up. The disputed land was in Luddington on the old river Don on the Yorks/Lincs border. Dad even said that it went to the House of Lords (maybe because of Earl Fitzwilliam?). I guess it would have been around 1900, but I haven't tried the newspaper archives because it may have been anytime between, say 1890 and 1930.

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The Common Room / Mineral rights
« on: Thursday 25 October 18 09:25 BST (UK)  »
My father said his father had a dispute with Earl Fitzwilliam about the mineral rights under his house, which my grandfather won because his house was built on the course of the old river Don and you can't own the mineral rights under a river. Is this likely to be true?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Course of old River Don
« on: Thursday 25 October 18 09:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for this. I had a problem getting onto the old-maps website. (I suspect you have to register). But the nls map was brilliant with the marking for the course of the old river Don in 1888 and the up-to-date view side-by-side.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Course of old River Don
« on: Wednesday 24 October 18 21:04 BST (UK)  »
My grandmother lived in Boundary House, High Street, Luddington, which my father said was built on the course of the old River Don. Can anyone verify this please?

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