Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1874/3/10/1
  • Title
    Nine documents concerning the stopping up of Back Lane, Woburn
  • Date free text
    March to June 1874
  • Production date
    From: 1874 To: 1874
  • Scope and Content
    (1) Thomas Bunker, china and glass dealer at Woburn – he occupies a house at Woburn which fronts the public highway. His back premises lead into the lane marked G on the Plan produced. Within 13 years last past there was a bar at the north-east end of the said lane, placed to prevent the access of carriages and horses through the land which was subsequently removed leaving a passage for horses and carriage. The lane passes the back of all the houses which front the public highway through Woburn, all of which he believes belong to the Duke of Bedford. The lane is narrow and hardly convenient for 2 carriages to pass through or to meet therein. The lane only leads to pass the back of the said houses, and is only separated from the public highway by a few yards. (2) Document A – Notice given on behalf of the Duke of Bedford by John Thomas Green, solicitor, that he wishes to stop up a street in Woburn known as Back Lane. [25 March 1874] (3) Document B – James John Adkins, Surveyor of the Highways for Woburn District having received notice on behalf of Duke of Bedford that he wishes to stop up Back Lane, Woburn, give notice to assemble the inhabitants of the parish of Woburn in vestry. [26 March 1874] (4) Document C – Notice that meeting in vestry of the inhabitants of the parish of Woburn to be held at the Town Hall at 10am on Friday 17 April 1874 to consider proposal for stopping up Back Lane. [10 April 1874] (5) Document D – Notice that on 30 June 1874 application will be made to Bedford Quarter Sessions for an order to stop up Back Lane, Woburn. [18 April 1874] (6) Document F – Duke of Bedford as owner of the land and premises on both sides of Back Lane agrees it should be entirely stopped up as deemed expedient by the inhabitants of parish of Woburn assembled in vestry on 17 April 1874. [28 May 1874] (7) All due process in case for stopping up Back Lane has been followed, and site has been viewed by Justices of the Peace. [29 May 1874] (8) Depositions to Petty Sessions held at Woburn on 29 May 1874 - Frederic Thomas Tanqueray of Woburn, solicitor – confirms notices have been given regarding stopping up of Back Lane as required. - Charles Herbert of Woburn, clerk to John Thomas Green of Woburn, solicitor – produces duplicates of notices affixed to the church door - Robert Bromley of Bedford, land surveyor – produces a plan marked E. (9) Document E – plan of Woburn showing Back Lane.
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