10. Blind Lane
Placenames in Balderton have been analysed by the English Place Name Society:
https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Nottinghamshire/Balderton/53286c05b47fc40bd4000832-Balderton
OS 6-inch maps of Balderton are available at
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=12.4&lat=53.04901&lon=-0.79379&layers=102&b=1&z=0&point=53.05880,-0.78057&i=101603019
The pre-1776 enclosures are shown on the Enclosure Surveys map. Map supplied courtesy of Reprographics, Nottinghamshire County Archives.
The award has statements and signatures as follows:
MEMBRANE 1:
HAND 1: I [name, e.g. Henson Kirkby] do swear that I will faithfully, impartially and honestly according to the best of my skill and Judgment and execute the Trusts in xxx Commissioner by virtue of an act of parliament for dividing and inclosing open fields Meadow Common pastures and Waste Grounds in the parish of Balderton in the County of Nottingham without favour or affection to any person whatsoever.
HAND 2: Sworn at Newark upon Trent in the county of Nottingham the twenty sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty six
Before me one of the commissioners of the said act.
[SIGNED HAND 3: Henson Kirkby]
HAND 4: Enrolled in his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster of the Term of Easter in the eighth year of the Reign of King George the third.
[SIGNED HAND 5: Nath[aniel] Rowe]
[PRINTED SEAL]
SIGNATURE HAND 6: e.g., Henson Kirkby