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C Newman Manor Farm, Sharnbrook Includes the following items found bundled with the valuations: - Schedule of Dilapidations accrued to Manor Farm(all buildings and land) held by John Thomas from L G Stileman Gibbard under leases of 24 May 1900 and 28 November 1903. (corrected draft) Includes attached correspondence(1913-1914)re signature of Charles Newman(of Manor Farm, Cranfield)(incoming tenant)to an agreement for taking a lease on the Farm. One letter from estate agent J C Beall to F V Newman refers to F V Newman's request for a cottage for his 'man'; the letter advises him to 'try Lucy Hodby, Church Lane' for lodgings. - Copy lease for 14 years from 29th September 1918 dated 21st October 1918 from Leonard Gibbard Stileman - Gibbard of Sharnbrook to Charles Newman, farmer, of the farmhouse and land in Sharnbrook known as Manor Farm, now in the occupation of Charles Newman, and other parcels of land in Sharnbrook(both lots of land amounting to 295a 1r 28p and all being scheduled)now or lately in the occupation of Benjamin Harradine Cook, reserving to the lessor and the tenants and cont occupiers of Sharnbrook brickyard right to enter into and upon Long Aldens Close by the middle gate in the Sharnbrook/Odell Road to dig, search for, get and carry away store in or under the close for burning in the brickyard; also reserving an access easement over the road leading to the Sharnbrook Brickyard from the Sharnbrook/Odell Road and over the NE side of Clay Piece Field from the Odell Road to Clay Pieces Spinney; and also reserving trees, shrubs, pollards, saplings, coppice and underwood and mines and minerals, and sporting and shooting rights with related access easements. Rent: 453 10s pa (and 50 for every acre of meadow or pasture converted into tillage without the lessor's consent). Includes covenants re tenant right at commencement of the tenancy, not to underlet(except cottages)without consent, prevention of new footpaths being made on any part of the farm or any waste land being enclosed on the frontages of it, good husbandry(unusual or exhausting crops, as listed, not being permitted without consent), proportional specification of annual fallow land and permitted cultivation species, manuring painting and tarring of the buildings, drain and ditch maintenance, provision of straw and other materials for thatching, keeping a field book recording cropping and cultivation in each year, treatment of effluent from the septic tank in Well Pond Close and maintenance of the acre of land now used for the disposal of the effluent. Includes covenants by the lessor re finding paint and tar for external use, bricks and tiles for draining and roofing, unwrought sawn timber and other materials in the rough for repairs(except straw for thatching, glass, internal paint and paper), the lessee doing all labour and carting; payment for labour spits and hooks for thatched roofs, the tenant providing wheat straw; valuation on determination of the term; allowing the lessee use of the rickyard stabling for two horses and accommodation for threshing and dressing his corn until the 1st May after determination. Includes proviso giving the lessor liberty to resume possession of and enclose all or parts of Middle Goosey Field as he may require for the purposes of his brickyard subject to abatement of his rent. -Farming Accounts papers for 1925/6 5 items

1924-1926

From: 1924 To: 1926

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Newman, C.,
Stileman Gibbard, Leonard Gibbard,
Thomas, John,
Newman, Charles,
Beall, J.C.,
Newman, F.V.,
Hodby, Lucy,
Cook, Benjamin Harradine

Sharnbrook Manor Farm, agricultural buildings, Cranfield Manor Farm, horses, sporting rights, shooting rights, SHARNBROOK, CRANFIELD, Sharnbrook Long Aldens Close, Sharnbrook Odell Road, Sharnbrook Clay Pieces Spinney, Sharnbrook Well Pond Close, Sharnbrook Church Lane