Hello, I am looking at an assessment of the window tax for the liberty of Waterfall for the year 1782 (in Frances Alice Harvey's excellent book, Waterfall of Yesterday). It lists names and amounts but I realise that I don't actually know what the "Liberty of Waterfall" covers geographically. Can anyone help, please? I also want to say thank you in advance as I am really grateful to all those who share their knowledge so helpfully here. It is really appreciated, not only by me, I'm sure but by many, many others. Helen

The first place to look for information about certain areas is genuki.org.uk do a search for Waterfall and it will give you where it is and what other towns villages there are in that area. Window tax where the phrase "daylight robbery" came from.RegardsMary > From: helen@ravensden.fsbusiness.co.uk > To: staffordshire@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:26:10 +0000 > Subject: [STAFFORDSHIRE] What is a "liberty" > > Hello, > > I am looking at an assessment of the window tax for the liberty of Waterfall > for the year 1782 (in Frances Alice Harvey's excellent book, Waterfall of > Yesterday). >