Nether House was located down Rylah Hill in the small area known as Riley - Rylah as it is now named.

At the present time (May 2008) my earliest documented evidence of Nether House in 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 Nether House was located though at that time Nether House was not so 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 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.

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

1916. 

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