Land Tax Return, 1818
This record for Gloucester Street and Cumberland Street in the parish of St Leonard, Shoreditch, is held by the London Metropolitan Archives and in the collection ‘London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692–1932’ on Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk)
1 OWNER
This column lists the owners of freehold land. Most of them are landlords of multiple houses, and their names are also linked to other properties elsewhere in the area.
2 STREET
The names of the two streets have been included to help with orderly recordkeeping in this densely packed and overcrowded inner-city parish.
3 OCCUPIERS
These are the occupiers of each individual property: they are all tenants – there are no owner-occupiers. Zachariah Goldring is Alan’s 3x great grandfather.
4 POTENTIAL TAX
The sums in this column indicate the sums that would have been due if the tax on the property had not already been redeemed previously.
5 VALUATION
The first two columns on each page list the valuation of each property in £, for those assessed (column one) and those that have been redeemed (column two).
6 TAX PAID
This column shows the land tax that was paid – by the tenant or, more rarely, the owner – in shillings and pence. Note that empty properties were also taxable.