| Description | Papers relating to the diversion and stopping-up of a highway leading from the village of Welburn into the York and Scarborough Turnpike Road, both in the township of Welburn and parish of Bulmer, and the making of a new highway to replace it. Including:
- notice dated 16 October 1866 given by the Duke of Devonshire (as trustee of the estate of the Earl of Carlisle deceased) to the Surveyors of the Highway of the township of Welburn, for them to give notice to the churchwardens of the parish of Bulmer to call a vestry meeting to consider his plan to divert the highway at Welburn
- notice dated 19 October 1866 from the Surveyors of the Highway of the township of Welburn to the churchwardens of the parish of Bulmer to call a vestry meeting
- notice dated 19 October 1866 of a vestry meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Bulmer to be held on 24 October 1866
- resolution of the vestry meeting held on 24 October 1866 agreeing to the proposal to divert the highway
- request dated 24 October 1866 from the Surveyor of the Highway to two Justices of the Peace to view the highway to be diverted and stopped-up
- consent dated 28 October 1866 of the Duke of Devonshire (as trustee of the estate of the Earl of Carlisle deceased) to the making of the new highway through his land; with plan
- notice dated 30 October 1866 of an application to Quarter Sessions for an order to divert the highway
- copies of The York Herald dated 3 November 1866, 10 November 1866, 17 November 1866 and 24 November 1866, containing a notice relating to the diversion of the highway
- proofs of witnesses dated 26 November 1866 relating to the diversion of the highway at Welburn
- certificate of two Justices dated 26 November 1866 that they have viewed the highway to be diverted and have found it more commodious to the public than the old highway, which will become unnecessary when the new road is completed; with plan
- brief for counsel at the Epiphany [Christmas] Sessions 1867 to move that the certificate of the Justices that they have viewed the road be read in court |