Reference
P28/26/1
Title
Volume marked "Roxton Award"
Date free text
31 August 1819
Production date
From: 1818 To: 1819
Scope and Content
Containing:
a) Commissioners' oaths of Martin Nockolds [Tring, Herts.] Alexander Watford [Cambridge] and Thomas Thorpe [Barford, Bedfs.], 8 June 1810
b) Appointment of Anthony Jackson, Barkway, Herts., land surveyor, as commissioner of the Roxton Inclosure, in place of Thomas Thorpe, deceased, 22 January 1813, with Jackson's oath, 5 March 1813
c) Roxton Inclosure Award, with signatures of the Commissioners and Charles Banks, St. Neots, Hunts. and J. P. Wedd, Royston, Herts. on parchment 55pp 21 August 1819 [enrolled on 4 September 1819]
d) "A plan of the parish of Roxton in the County of Bedford. 1818". Signed by the Inclosure Commissioners [and presumably surveyed by one of them; Anthony Jackson, land surveyor] Covers whole parish. Key to "small old Inclosures" in Roxton and Colesden, (7 entries only). No scale but approximately 6 chains: 1 inch [13.3" to one mile]. Ink and watercolour on parchment. 54" x 30¼"
1st meeting at Chequers Roxton on 8 June 1810 before Thorpe's death. Then at the Cock Inn, Eaton Socon 5 March 1813. Gross acreage 2919 acres 33 p. Allotments of open field 2067 acres. Old enclosures 787 acres 27p. Roads 47 acres 1r 16p. River, drains etc 24acres 2r 30p.
Archival history
Parish copy deposited 1989.
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