Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QSR1844/4/10/2
  • Title
    Certificate issued by Lord Charles James Fox Russell and Richard Gilpin, Justices of the Peace, that they have viewed roads in Leighton Buzzard and the hamlets of Heath and Reach and Billington as set out by the enclosure commissioners. Roads declared to be completed.
  • Date free text
    30 August 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1844
  • Scope and Content
    (1) the Great Brickhill Road leading from Woburn Road nearly opposite Bowden's house in a northward direction over open fields in the Township of Leighton Buzzard to the Heath, across the Heath in the same direction in a straight line until it enters the Hamlet of Heath and Reach, and continuing N and NW over the Heath until it meets an ancient road between old inclosures belonging to John Mortimer; (2) Linslade Road leading from the Woburn Road near the NW corner of Sheep Cote Close in the occupation of William Robinson Lawford, in a SW direction near its present track over the mill stream to an ancient lane between an old inclosure called Little Mead and the parish of Linslade; (3) Shenley Hill Road leading from a road in the Hamlet of Heath and Reach in a SE direction along the NE boundary of the fields of Leighton Buzzard to a road in the Hamlet of Eggington near the SE corner of Blakes Mead Furlong; (4) Mile Tree Highway Road leading from the Turnpike Road in an eastward direction over a Lammas Close of William Chew and a garden in the occupation of Samuel Row to a cottage at Vandyke in the occupation of Amos Hickenbottom and in a straight line over Vandyke Furlong to the eastward and then in the same direction to the end of Shenley Hill Road; (5) Stanbridge Road leading out of the Billington Road between Chain Bridge and the Gas Works in E and SE directions to Middle Deeds furlong, across the furlong and Chapman's Close to the Hamlet of Stanbridge
  • Level of description
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