Mount Pleasant Paranormal investigation - Doncaster ghosts

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A Brief History Of The Rossington Estate
And Mount Pleasant

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The name of Rossington is thought to have come from the British “rhos” – a rush, and therefore the town of the rush meadow. Rossington is also thought to have been mentioned in the Doomsday book as “Scitelesuuorde”. It was pleasant, open country high in an area of low land. There was once a roman fort at Parrots Corner, guarding the Great North Road, which was originally a Roman Road, and Roman villa at Mount Pleasant. Rossington was therefore probably visited as far back as 55 BC. The Great North Road was the main north/south artery. The London to Edinburgh stage coach used to change horses at the ‘Corporation Arms’, the building at parrots Corner which, is the current location of the ‘ Hare and Tortoise’ Public House. In the year 1200 the Mauley Family decided to have Rossington as a place of “occasional residences”. During the resign of Henry V1, Rossington belonged to the Salvyn family. The town of Rossington was subsequently passed over Doncaster Corporation in 1505.
James Stovin, the solicitor for Doncaster Corporation built “Shooter Hill”, later to become the local landmark, Rossington Hall. It was purchased by James Brown of Hare Hills, Leeds. James was lord of the manor until his nephew James Streatfield took on his mantle. It was the streatfields resign that Rossington Colliery was sunk. Annette Streatfield, James daughter, ‘lifted the first sod’ in June 1912. It was during this period that Rossington started to grow into a thriving mining Village. Miners and there families flooded in, and by the time the pit went into production it employed around the 3000 men. Just before the Second World War, Rossington was commonly assumed to be the largest village in Europe. Since the war, the village has expanded further with the addition of council and private housing developments, much of which took place on the remaining agricultural land.

11th Century
During William the Conquorer reign Nigel De Fossard held the manor of Doncaster, Wheatley, Sandal, Cantley and Rossington
1205
Doncaster almost totally destroyed by fire
13th Century
Henry III grants Peter De Mauley the Third free warren in all his demesne lands in Rossington (and Doncaster, Sandal, Wheatley, Hexthorpe)
14th Century
Edward III restored Rossington (& others) to Margeret, widow of Peter Mauley the 5th
1584
Doncaster Corporation rights over Rossington Park determined
1622
Petition to King James Ist about ownership of Rossington, Doncaster, Hexthorpe
1631
Rossington Bridge built
1708
James Bosvill, The King of the Gypsies, died 30/1/1708, buried at Rossington Church Yard
1786
The new court house at Rossington was built, and in the next and succeeding year the principal part of that town with the New Inn at Rossington Bridge
1836 Rossington Estate sold by Doncaster Corporation to James Browne Esquire of Hare Hills near Leeds for £92500.
To the Mauleys, as to their predecessors, Doncaster, both Manor and borough was only one source of income, albeit an important one. In 1279, for instance, the income from Doncaster totalled £60 a year, comprising rents of the corn mills, market tolls, court fees and fines and other sources. The chief interest the manor possessed for the Mauleys, apart from the revenue it generated, was the Manor house, with woods, fishery and park, built at Rossington by the first Peter de Mauley. The Manor seems to have been used from time to time to support a dowager, witnessed by a law suit in May 1365 when Margaret, widow of Peter de Mauley V, complained of the lawlessness which prevented her from holding her manor court and collecting profits and tolls from her market and fair.
In 1415 the good fortune of the Mauleys came to an end when Peter VII, the 5th Baron, died childless. The peerage became extinct and the estates were divided between his female heirs. In 1438 Sir John Salvin, the grandson of the last de Mauley, decided to raise money on the security of the manor of Doncaster and leased it to a relative by marriage, Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. The townsmen no doubt thought it prudent to ratify their hard-won rights against the possibility of an unwarranted interference from their new lords, the Salvin family, and were successful in soliciting the issue of a charter from Henry VI, sealed on 18th May 1445. Not only did this repeat, and so reaffirm, the grant of 1194 but in addition it secured royal approval for the grant that ‘the commonality of the town of Doncaster’ had obtained from their lord in 1331. If we know little for certain about the motives and origins which led to the issuing of the earliest royal charters, we are equally baffled about the background to the fourth borough charter of 1467, which is the most important of them all for the town of Doncaster.
The royal charter of 1467 had granted the town the right to its own fully fledged corporation but there remained the manor of Doncaster, which continued to exercise authority over the towns people through its control of the markets, mills an manorial courts. The manor had fallen into the hands of the crown in 1461, as the result of a misunderstanding over its ownership. In 1468 John Salvin had begun the legal processes to attempt to reclaim his manor, but 16 years later, when the courts decided that his allegation was true and the king granted the licence to repossess the manor, the family was in no position to persue the matter immediately. John Salvin had died before his petition was heard and his son Ralph was only a child and, for whatever reason, the Salvin family allowed their claim to lapse. Perhaps they were daunted by the expense and delay that beginning the entire legal process under a new monarch, Henry VII, would involve, although the family was to change its mind a century later.
After two decades in which nothing more had been heard from the Salvin family, the corporation successfully petitioned the king for the grant of the manor, and on the 14th of July 1505 a charter issued under the kings great seal ratified the bargain.
The corporation obtained possession of the manor and its rights, lands, buildings, courts, mills, markets, tolls and game included. No written survey appears to have been made to define the property that belonged to the manor. The townsmen and the kings manorial steward probably knew it well enough to agree on what was to be transferred. It certainly included hundreds of acres of common land on the southern and western fringes of the town, the common, later the site of the racecourse, on the east of the Great North Road, and the low pasture and the Carrs on the west of it. Beyond the township of Doncaster, the property of the manor included lands in Hexthorpe, Balby and in Long Sandall but most important of these was the whole of the township of Rossington, which accounted for several thousand acres of land, and the right to appoint the priest to the parish church of St Michael. The water mills on the River Don were also now transferred to the possession of the corporation, and the townspeople, as before, were obliged to have their corn ground there.
In the later 16th and early 17th centuries, the defence of the corporate rights involved the corporation in considerable trouble, time and expense, for there were those, especially amongst the neighbouring gentry, who were keen to contest the ownership of its property. In 1584 unnamed local antagonists were believed to have provided the crown with evidence that initiated a failed lawsuit over its rights to Hexthorpe and Rossington. In 1559 there had been a dispute with Hugh Wirral senior, Lord of the manor of Wheatley, over the right to impound stray cattle on the moor and in the same year, despite the recommendation of the Earl of Shrewsbury, its high steward, the corporation declined to lease land in Rossington Park to Hugh’s son, Thomas. Litigation broke out afresh in 1594 between the corporation and Hugh Wirral the younger, a man tactfully described as ‘somewhat given to contention’ and moreover ‘matched in kindred and alliance with many of the best men in the shire’. This dispute continued until the end of the decade over the right to dig for turf, a valuable fuel, on the moor. It was fortunate for the corporation that its extensive estate was held from the Crown in return for annual payment as this favoured the Crowns defence for the corporation in return for revenues. Ralph Salvin revived his claim to the manor in 1607 and, after that claim was thrown out in 1611, launched another in 1620. This generated further suits and, rather than become embroiled in serial litigation the corporation decided the best solution was to buy off the claim, Five years later, it agreed to pay William, Ralph’s heir, £3000 to settle the dispute.

A desire to reduce the corporate debt in Doncaster led to the council’s entire Rossington estate being put up for sale in 1838. This comprised nearly three thousand acres of land, farm buildings, mansion house, cottages and advowson (right of presentation) to the parish church of St Michael. It represented a little less that two-thirds of the whole corporate estate in the area and just under a third in terms of value. In exchange for £96000, the Browne family stepped into the ready-made role of squire. They were to own the estate for almost exactly a century.

In September of 1938 The estate was sold again in lots, Of which our current concern, Mount Pleasant Hotel, was apart of. Catalogued as ’THE VERY ATTRACTIVE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY known as MOUNT PLEASANT’ see lot 24 with the details to the auction.
The buyer was one Thomas Stocks Jenkins and his recently married wife Alice Maud Jenkins (formally Coopland, of the bakers of Scarborough).
Thomas Stocks Jenkinson, aged 28, Cantley, Sheffield, and Alice Maud Coopland, aged 31, 12 Apr 1923 [married 16 Apr 1923] married in Scarborough.

The Cooplands Story started in 1932 when Mrs Alice Jenkinson opened a shop at 33 Hallgate, Doncaster to sell home made cakes and chocolates. Word of these quality cakes and chocolates rapidly spread, and within 12 months Mrs Jenkinson employed a full time baker to cope with demand and started to expand the range of products

Today it has been transformed along with its cottages opposite into the hotel today.