Reference
LHE242
Title
Conveyance (Land to Hertford, Luton & Dunstable Railway lying in Luton, Beds & Harpenden & Wheathampstead, Herts):
Date free text
1855, 1860, 1861
Production date
From: 1855 To: 1861
Scope and Content
1)John Shaw Leigh of Luton Hoo Esq. (Vendors),2) Hertford, Luton & Dunstable Railway Co. (Purchasers) recites 1)Conveyance
1) Hon Patrick James Herbert Crichton Stuart (commonly called Lord John Stuart) John Boyle 2)Charles Thomas Warde
3) John Shaw Leigh 4) R.M. Lowe, Manors Lordships, Mansion House, Park, Messuages etc ,29 June 1855. 2) Conveyance
1) Frederick Burr (vendor) 2)John Shaw Leigh (Purchaser) incl close or arable land land called Marsletts Field (25A, 3R, 10P)
abs NE road leading from Luton to Whitwell, SE land of John Shaw Leigh, SW Road leading from Blackwater Bridge to the Park Wall
NW lane div it from land of William Henry Cox in Luton 1856. 3) Conveyance 1)British Land Company Ltd 2)John Shaw Leigh
inc piece of land 20p (sold by James & Daniel Murdall to British Land Company as pt of Leccy Bridge Farm Wheathampstead 18 Feb 1860, 21 May 1860. 4) Luton & Dunstable & Welwyn Junction Railway Company Act 1855 empowered to construct railway from Leighton Buzzard & Dunstable Branch of London North Western Railway in Parish of Houghton Regis to the Great Northern
Railway in Parish of Hatfield, Herts 5) Hertford, Luton & Dunstable Railway Act 1858. 4) above dissolved, property etc transferred to
Hertford, Luton & Dunstable Railway Co. pieces of land 94. 96-104, 106, 106a, in Hamlet of East Hyde,108-111, 114-118, 121, 123,
& 125 in West Hyde & 2) & 4) in Harpenden (numbers from Luton Dunstable & Welwyn Junction Railway Co Plan Book - PDR 21/1/1
covered by recital 1) above. 2) 90 & 92 on said Plan (Luton) covered by recital 2) above 3) piece of land in Wheathamstead
(31 on plan) covered by recital 3) above all marked on plan on dorse surveyed by J Cumberland (scale 5 chains to 1 inch).
Consideration £1361.17s.6d. Marked '5' on dorse, 12 Dec 1861
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