Reference
D181
Title
Draft Lease from 29 September 1880 for 7 years: 1) Sir Philip Monoux Payne of Wootton House, Baronet, (landlord); 2) Henry J Conant of Toddington Park Esquire.
Date free text
1880
Production date
From: 1880 To: 1880
Scope and Content
Mansion House called Wootton House, Wootton, with cottage, greenhouses, hothouses, Coach-house, stables, Cow houses, Piggeries and other buildings, yards, gardens belonging to it (5 acres 1 rood 15 poles). Oak Close 7 acres 1 rood 19 poles, Wilderness 2 acres 0 roods 24 poles, Little Hog Close and Allotment 4 acres 2 roods 11 poles, Biggins 5 acres 2 roods 0 poles (all pasture) together with furniture, fittings and fixtures. Right of fowling, fishing and sporting over Leased lands. Hunt fowl, fish and sport in and over all the other lands of Sir Philip in Bedfordshire. Wood 91 acres 2 roods 15 poles (in hand); Spinney 4 acres 0 roods 9 poles; Plantation Huckle 18 poles; Hewlett's Pightle 3 acres 0 roods, 24 poles (broken down in amendment) - Grass; The Parks 7? acres 3 roods 11 poles (Mrs Armstrong) - Grass; Top End Farm - Grass and arable 292 acres ? roods 3 poles altered to 285 acres 3 roods 11 poles (W J Armstrong); Berrys Farm - Grass and arable 133 acres I rood 33 poles (Richard Line); Hilling Close 2 acres 2 roods 14 poles (Richard Line) (added later); Kiln Close, grass 31 acres 2 roods 34 poles (G Line); Banks Pightle (added later) 1 acre 0 roods 26? poles (Jesse Lovell); Buckfields, grass and arrable 12 acres 2 roods 6 poles (T Dudley); Wood End Farm grass and arable 157 acres 0 roods 22 poles changed to 149 acres 3 roods 32 poles (Hubert Hunter) (less allotments 7 acres 0 roods 10 poles); Bourne End Farm grass and arable 138 acres 0 roods 25 poles (Hubert Hunter); Cottage, gardens etc 2 acres 1 rood 33 poles (in hand); Allotments 7 acres 0 roods 30 poles (various tenants), 6 acres 3 roods 32 poles (various tenants); First Schedule 24 acres 3 roods 29 poles (in hand). Total 1037 acres 1 rood 24 poles. Rent £200 for house and lands. £30 for liberties to hunt, shoot etc. NB Covenant to maintain pleasure grounds round the house, including plants (drawn up by William Bindon Blood).
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