• Reference
    Z1510/1/14a-b
  • Title
    Two editions of Plan & particulars of Maulden Estate, Bedfordshire. To be offered for sale by direction of the Duke of Bedford at an auction at the Town Hall, Bedford. Auctioneers J R Eve & Son, Bedford. Solicitor F T Tanqueray, Woburn. First & Second Editions.
  • Date free text
    10 June 1911
  • Production date
    From: 1911 To: 1911
  • Scope and Content
    Brief history of the Maulden Estate. Lot 1: Maulden Mill Farm 38acres 1 rood 30 poles. Old fashioned house, outbuildings, arable & pasture land. Tenant Mr George Palmer. Rent £50 per annum. Lot 2: Garden or building land planted with fruit trees at Hall End, cose to the village of Clophill. 1 rood 32 poles. Tenant Mr William Izzard. £1.15.0 per annum. Lot 3: Two rough cast & thatched cottages at Hall End, Maulden, and enclosure of allotment land containing 2 acres 2 roods 27 poles. Tenants Mary Coburn & and Arthur Sharpe. Total rental value £10.15.0. Lot 4: Plaster & thatched cottage situated at Hall End. 2 roods, 15 perches. Tenant John Sharpe. Rent £3.0.8 per annum. Lot 5: Old Farm situated on Clophill Road. Modern house, farm buildings, white bricked cottage, pasture land. Total area 45 acres 1 rood 30 perches. Tenants Mr H J Topham (farm & land) £70 rent per annum. Mr William Boxford (cottage) £4.11.0 per annum. Lot 6: Three cottages and gardens at Green End, Maulden. Tenants Mr Charles Humphries £3.9.4 per annum, Mr Arthur Hill, £3.5.0 per annum, Mr James Palmer £10.8.0 per annum. Lot 7: Green End Farm, farmhouse with 21 cres of market gardening & pasture land. 21 acres 3 roods 18 poles. Tenants Mr R G Harris £30 per annum. Mr James Palmer 17s 6d landlords rates. Lot 8: The Gorse, Clophill Road. 4 acres 2 roods 39 poles. Vacant possession. Lot 9: Allotments known as The Green with a frontage to the High Road, stocked with fruit treets. 11 acres 1 rood 39 poles. Tenant: Maulden Parish Council £23 per annum. Lot 10: Known as Ambrose with frontage to the High Street & Silsoe Road. 17 acres 0 rood, 15 poles. Various occupiers. Rent £26.15.6. Lot 11: Allotments & Accommodation lands known as Betts Hill and Red Hill, including a portion of Green End Farm. 46 acres, 3 roods, 27 poles. Tenants; Mr R G Harris (part of Green End Farm ) £9 per annum. Maulden Parish Council (Red Hill) £21.0.0. per annum; Various occupiers (Betts Hill) £13.2.3 per annum. Lot 12: Remaining portion of Great Farm, with frontage to Silsoe Road and new Road to Flitwick Station. Family residence, pleasure gardens, kitchen & fruit gardens, stabling. Arable & pasture land. Total 37 acres 1 rood 7 poles. Vacant possession. Lot 13: Old pasture known as Hollington Meadow. 27 acres 1 rood 22 poles. Vacant possession. Lot 14: Woodland & Sporting Estate including Maulden Wood, Pennyfather’s Hills and Pennyfatehr’s Moors, grass & arable lands, three woodmen’s & keepers cottages, small homestead, whole of the valuable growing timber. 480 acres 1 rood 1 pole. Tenants Mr Henry Henman £3.18.0 per annum; George Garner £3.9.4 per annum; George Norman £3.9.4 per annum; R G Harris (part of Green End Farm) £1.0.0 per annum; H J Topham (part Old Farm) £30 per annum. Rights of way through woodland mentioned. Lot 15: South Limbersley Farm including a portion of King’s Farm. House, homestead, 126 acres arable, 72 acres pasture, total amounting to 200 acres 3 roods 27 poles. Rights of way reserved. Tenants Joseph & Thomas Palmer £75 per annum; William Butt £33.10.0 per annum. Lot 16: Market Gardening & Pasture Land 15 acres 3 roods 8 poles. Tenant William Butt £12.10.0 rent per annum. Lot 17: Enclosure of old pasture land & orchard. 7 acres 2 roods, 2 poles. Tenant William Butt £9.0.0 per annum. Lot 18: Small holding now part of King’s Farm: 16 acres 2 roods 32 poles. Tenant William Butt £12.0.0 per annum. Lot 19: Compact mixed holding now part of King’s Farm, gardening & pasture land, brick, plaster & tiled cottage. 28 acres 0 roods 27 poles. Tenant William Butt £18.0.0, Charles Hill £1.19.0 and Mrs Ann Bandy £1.6.0. Lot 20: Small holding in centre of village known as Church Hill with pair of plaster & thatched cottages. Tenants: Mr William Butt £9.0.0; Thomas Richardson £3.1.0; Mrs Helen Peat £3.0.8; Beds County Council (garden) 6 shillings; G F Latimer (garden frontage) 2 shillings. Lot 21: Brick & tiled cottage in George Street. 1 acre 2roods 15 poles. With garden land. Tenants Jane Sinfield’s representatives £6.1.4 and George Brightman £4.12.0. Lot 22: Cottage & garden land, George Street, Maulden. 1 acre 1 rood 30 poles.Tenant George Brightman £10.8.0. Lot 23: Brickm stud & thatched cottage, George Street, Maulden with large & productive garden. 2 roods. Tenant William Keech £5.4.0. Lot 24: Market gardening farm known as Duck End Farm. 80 acres 13 poles. Brick & slated house. Tenant Joseph Billington £72. per annum. Lot 25 Arable field known as Ampthill field. 17 acres 3 roods 33 poles. Tenant Joseph Billington £18 per annum.
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