Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AL126
  • Title
    Manor of Stevington. Admission of Francis green on surrender of Major Henry Court
  • Date free text
    9 Aug 1838
  • Production date
    From: 1838 To: 1838
  • Scope and Content
    farmhouse in west end of Stevington and 102ac 16p all now occupied by Richard Poole, and now known as: - homestead & close (4ac 1r 8p) Seed Close (9ac 7p) Cats Pits (17ac 16p) Tenter Hills (7ac 1r 32p) The Moors (6ac 1r 24p) Grass Holmes (2r 27p) Willow Hill (23ac 8p) Willow Slade (1ac 1r 5p) Far Close (19ac 1r 11p) Makeham's Close (4ac) Green Close (3ac 3r 3p) Clay Close (5ac 2r 8p) the Island (13p) another island (14p) ---cottage with kitchen, barn & stable [as AL80 --- cottage, east end of Pavenham, with kitchen, barn, stable & pightle (1 1/2ac) --- allotment of 10ac 21p, Town field & Elland Meadow] now forming parts of Home Close, Middle Close and the Meadow --- 1ac 36p now part of Hunger Hill Close --- 2ac 3r 24p, now part of Hunger Hill Close [AL102 -- 2ac 3r 24p, Town field] and see AL 119 viz: --- Cottage, east end of Pavenham with kitchen, barn, stable and pightle 1 1/2 acre (as AL80) --- Allotment of 10 ac 21 p, Town Field and Elland Meadow (as AL80) --- 1ac 36p (as in AL105) --- 2ac 3r 24p to which James Court was admitted under will of Mary Sanders. Property as in AL108 viz: --- farmhouse, West End, Stevington, home close, home stall (4ac 1r 8p) --- cottage & close (4ac 10p) --- Clay Close (4ac 3r 8p) --- allotment West End green (34p) --- the Stripes (1ac 3r 6p) --- Wilbons close (1ac 5p) --- allotment Woodcroft field. (33ac 2r) --- close adjoining Clay close (3r 19p) with cottage on it --- Little Farkes (3r 12p) --- reed bed (3p) --- allotments:- Woodcroft field: 1ac 2r 28p; 1ac 3p; 3ac 1r 12p ---allotments:- Dancing Meadow Holm 2r 29p ---Woodcroft field 23ac 2r; 16ac 3r 17p; 3ac 2r 16p to which James Court was admitted 24 Dec 1816 on surrender of Ann Wootton --- as AL123 viz: --- farmhouse & pightle on west of Chellington-Bedford road, now converted into 2 tenements and a blacksmith's shop occupied by James Pearson, William Coleman, & shop by James Eady; one of the barns now converted into 2 tenaments occupied James Washington & Samuel How, and close, now called Eady's Close occupied by Richard Ashpole. --- Dovehouse Yard or close and site of dovehouse (1r 10p) now a garden occupied by James Pearson, on north side of the road.
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