Search Northamptonshire Land, Poll & Window Tax Lists

This record set contains transcriptions from a number of taxation records held by Northamptonshire Archives. They include Land Tax for 1801 for most parishes in the county, and for Northampton in 1805, Window Tax for ‘Higham Ferrers Hundred (administrative area) for 1750, Cleyley and Towcester hundreds for 1772, Land & Window Tax for Daventry in 1776 & 1779 and for Wellingborough in 1782. It also includes a Subsidy (Taxation List) of 1625 for parishes in north & eastern part of the county and the Poll Tax for Huxloe, Rothwell and Corby hundreds in the north of the county for 1698.

These indexes give last name, first name, year and place. For land tax records, the occupier, owner and the sum payable may be given although some records are not so informative.
For window tax records, the number of windows in the property is generally given (the higher the number, the larger the property) and for some, the amount of tax paid. The Poll tax of 1698 is mostly a list of names of taxpayers (heads of households) within a parish.
Further information may be gained by consulting the original documents which are held at Northamptonshire Archives.