Nether House was located down Rylah Hill about 400 yards/metres from Rock Corner on the left hand side of Rylah Hill.  Access to the property was via a cart track that runs directly off Rylah Hill.  The property was derelict in 1945 and at that time was part of land rented by farmer Mr. Fred Holmes of Lilac Farm.

When I first started researching Nether House my first thoughts were that it was a house in the small area known as Riley - Rylah as it is now named.  I thought it was the house that was up a short cart track that was almost opposite Rylah Farm.

I was wrong!

At the present time (October 2011) my earliest documented evidence of that property (not Nether House) is in the next document referred to, albeit I have studied the 1841 census and will be recording info. in due course.

1847.  29 March.  This entry relates to the short lane (cart track) opposite the farm, where a house was located though at that time it was not named.  Nevertheless, I have included this snippet of information because Thomas Greaves who owned Riley / Rylah Farm also owned the land that was being conveyed in the document.

A release of a right of way over a Homestead and Croft situate at Riley in the parish of Scarcliffe in the County of Derby.  This was a 'Conveyance of Real Property' between Thomas Greaves, Farmer of Old Coates in the parish of Heath (Derbyshire) on the one part and John Bowett, Farmer of Bothamstall and Thomas Bowett, Farmer of Warsop (both parishes in Nottinghamshire), on the second part.

To summarise the conveyance document, the two Bowetts owned Whitaker Croft (number 22 on the 1849 Tithe Award) and Riley Meadow (Number 112) and paid the sum of ten shillings of lawful English money to gain a legal right of way to these fields.

There are two more snippets of information in this Conveyance in that it states that Ryley Meadow was purchased by Thomas Greaves from the Devisees of the late Samuel Beeley.  Also, the two Bowetts had purchased their property at Riley from the Right Honourable Henry George Earl Bathurst.

1861.  Census. At that time, an important person in the district was William Burkitt a widower aged 54 years born at Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire was living at Ryhlah.  He was stated to be a Farm Bailiff.  His son Thomas aged 17 years born at Palterton lived with him as did his two unmarried daughters Elizabeth, 27 years and Ellen 20 years.

I conject that William Burkitt and his family occupied the property Nether House but did not own it.

1881.  Census.
William Burkitt a widower aged 74 years born Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire was still living at Rylah (Nether House - my words).  He was stated to be a farmer of 4 acres and a Rate collector.  He employed one labourer who did not live at the farm.  His grandaughter Eliza E. Burkitt aged 12 years born at Manchester was with him on census night.  He was an occupier but may not have owned his property.

1891.  Census.
William Burkitt a widower aged 85 years born Bothamsall, Nottinghamshire was still living at Rylah (Nether House - my words).  He was stated to be a shepherd.  Living with him was his grandson Joseph Sowter and his wife Ellen and two children.

1901.  Census. The Riley family occupied Nether House at the time of this census.  John Hiram Riley, his wife Elizabeth and five children occupied this house at the time of the census.  It is just co-incidence that a Riley family lived in a hamlet named Riley, though later the hamlet was named Rylah.  The said Riley family subsequently they moved up into Palterton village.  John Hiram Riley was a miner and would have worked at nearby Glapwell Colliery.

1911.  The Sowter family occupied Nether House at the time of this census.  We can pinpoint the location of Nether House by following the route of the Enumerator, who was recording properties from Stockley to Riley and onto Palterton.  Joseph Sowter the head of the household stated that Nether House was in Palterton.

Subsequently the Sowter family moved up to another property in Palterton village.

1960.  The house was demolished around the 1960s and nothing remains at the site to remind people of the house.

1916. 

This chapter is still being constructed as and when new information is forthcoming..