| Description | Milford Haven was a new town, built following an act of Parliament of 1790 which granted to Sir William Hamilton powers to make quays, establish markets, make docks, roads and avenues. Sir William made his nephew Charles Greville responsible for the enterprise and after Sir William's death the estate passed to Charles who died in 18O9. He was succeeded by his brother Robert Pulke Greville, who took little interest in the town and died in 1824. His son, also named Robert Fulke Greville, inherited the estate and in 1853 he came to live at Castle Hall, to which he made extensive additions, and spent large amounts of his own money building a wooden pier and hotel for the Irish traffic, two bridges across Milford1s two pills and obtaining an Improvement Act for the town. He ran out of money for all this and the estate became so heavily mortgaged that in 1867 when he died, it passed to the largest creditor, the National Provident Institution, who began in earnest the work of building docks at Milford. The Estate Company had a chequered career - it was expensive to keep its houses in good repair and the Newton Noyes railway and pier was something of a white elephant. An agent was appointed to administer the estate which was bought by Sir Hugh James Protheroe Thomas in 1920. Sir Hugh sold off much of the estate between 1920 & 1924 when he died following an operation for appendicitis. The Newton Noyes railway and pier were purchased by Messrs. Thomas W. Ward of Sheffield for a ship-breaking ..yaedand in 1934 the Admiralty acquired the pier and part of the railway for the Royal Naval Mines Depot, Castle Ball was surplus to the requirements of the Admiralty and was demolished. The records have been arranged in the following manner:-
(N.B. All property is in Milford Haven unless specifically described as elsewhere)
Conveyances of property and associated papers 1862 - 1947 1 - 351
Tenancy agreements 1871 - 1941 401 - 552
Draft leases 1873 - 1951 601 - 619
Leases 1806 - 1939 620 - 667
Other deeds 1881 - 1967 701 - 726
Correspondence 1919 - 1948 751 - 788
General estate papers and miscellaneous 1790 - 1937 800 - 822
Financial papers and accounts 1873 - 1927 830 - 845
Maps and plans 1880 - 1938 851 - 858
Valuation, reports and estimates of rent 1873-9 871 - 879 |