WW1/AC/OP2/63

Claimant: Charles Hall; Occupier: Duke of Bedford; Owner: Duke of Bedford; Property: Grange Farm, Milton Bryan; Land Affected: Field Nos 52 and 53 (total 30 acres) in Milton Bryan; Additional Information: - the claim was made by Charles Hall as the Duke's Land Agent; - correspondence regarding the use of Woburn Park for the grazing of 200 head of cattle and 500 sheep and what would happen to the deer herd and rare breeds as a consequence as well as the effects on the Duke's plans for cold storage of meat for winter distribution to the working classes by nineteen neighbouring parish councils [1917]; - details of rental of Warren Farm, Millbrook [1917]; - payment of wages of a ploughman and girl driver to do the breaking up of the grassland in question [1918]; - details of soldiers proposing to work on the land [1918]; - details of two pigeons, presumably found on Bedford Estates land, which had died from eating strychnine impregnated beans and grain, poisoning in such a manner being illegal [1918]; - Regulation made under Defence of the Realm Act allowing the killing of pheasants at any time of year by persons authorised by the War Agricultural Executive Committee [1918-1920]; - details of Duke's pasture fields in Millbrook that had been broken up for arable [1918]; - employment of Private B. Dewbury to kill and dress deer for venison [1918]; - need to cleanse Crawley Brook east of Birchmoor Farm [1919]; - information that no rookery was allowed in Woburn Park [1920]; - correspondence regarding the proposed eviction of Ernest Walton, stockman and Thomas Wadner, horse-keeper, from their cottages in Marston Moretaine following their leaving employment at South Pillinge Farm, Marston Moretaine [1920]; - details of claims for compensation by Duke of Bedford for land in Eversholt, Houghton Conquest, Milton Bryan, Potsgrove, Ridgmont, Woburn and Bow Brickhill [Buckinghamshire]; - notes of claims by various landowners in a large number of Bedfordshire villages. [ex File No.40]

1917-1921

From: 1917 To: 1921

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Hall, Charles,
Dewbury, W,
Russell, Herbrand Arthur (11th Duke of Bedford),
Walton, Ernest,
Wadner, Thomas

Bedfordshire County Council, ploughing, local government orders, World War One, cattle, deer, Millbrook Warren Farm, agricultural leases, ploughman, driver, service personnel, at home (WW1), service personnel, overseas (WW1), pigeons, vermin, beans, Defence of the Realm Act, pheasants, Crawley Brook, Woburn Birchmoor Farm, rooks, stockman, horse keeper, Marston Moretaine South Pillinge Farm, MILTON BRYAN, WOBURN, Woburn Park, MILLBROOK, Birchmoor, MARSTON MORETAINE, EVERSHOLT, HOUGHTON CONQUEST, POTSGROVE, RIDGMONT, WOBURN, Bow Brickhill