X733/93

Manor of Leighton Buzzard otherwise Grovebury. Reciting the surrender, on 19 April 1843, by John Perm of Billington, farmer, husband of Martha Fenn, deceased, and William Fenn, his son, in Consideration of £350 paid by Elizabeth Buckmaster, Slapton, Buckinghamshire, spinster

28 & 29 October 1852

From: 1852 To: 1852

- cottage at Billington where John Taverner once dwelt - close adjoining (½ acre) - 6 acres land in Billington common fields - half yard in Billington Long Mead (2 acres) - The Greyhound at Little Billington - pightle of pasture adjoining - 2 cow commons and 6 sheep commons to secure repayment of said £350 and interest at 5% p.a. Under the Billington enclosure award, various lands were awarded in lieu of the above and other property of John and William Penn i.e. - one plot in Great Mead (4 acres 2 roods 18 perches) West - Leighton Buzzard to Hemel Hempstead Road North West - John Penn and William Penn North East & South East - Lord Leigh - plot of land in Aldbury Close (34p) South East - 3 roods 8 perches awarded to John and William Penn, with consent of Thomas Pratt North West - Thomas Pratt North East & South East - William Andrews and wife Mary - part of copyhold Home Close (with consent of Thomas Pratt) (3 roods 8 perches) in Billington South West - ancient then lane North West - remaining part of said close and of allotment of 2 roods 28 perches given in exchange to Thomas Pratt North East - allotment in Aldbury Grove South East & South - homestead and home close of William Andrews and wife Mary (in exchange for land in Michaelmas Close) - copyhold farmhouse and Home Close (1 acre 2 roods 8 perches) part of the estate of the Trustees of Billington Town Lands South West - Leighton Buzzard to Hemel Hempstead road North & North East - Green and said ancient lane South East (part) - Edward Potts South East and South West (remaining parts) Thomas Robert Rackstraw (in lieu of 6 acres 2 roods 20 perches in Grovebury Field) Tinder the Leighton Buzzard enclosure award the Commissioners awarded in lieu of the cow commons on Summerleys and rights of common on 4 acres 3 roods 12 perches in Billington - plot on Little Billington Green East - Slapton Road South - John, and William Fenn South (remaining part) and West and North - John and William Fenn and Edward Leach North (remaining part) private road - plot on Great Billington Green (3 roods 30 perches) West - Leighton Buzzard and Hemel Hempstead Road North - Thomas Pratt South (part) - private road West & South (remaining parts) John and William Fenn On 28 and 29 October 1852 Elizabeth Buckmaster was admitted to said cottage where William Fenn lately dwelt and half acre pasture adjoining. Also to the Greyhound and close of pasture, the plot of land in Great Mead, plot in Aldbury Close, part of Home Close, farm (1 acre 2 roods 8 perches), plot in Little Billington Green and plot in Great Billington Green

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Fenn, John,
Fenn, Martha,
Fenn, William,
Buckmaster, Elizabeth,
Taverner, John,
Leigh,
Pratt, Thomas,
Andrews, William,
Andrews, Mary,
Potts, Edward,
Rackstrow, Thomas Robert,
Leach, Edward

BILLINGTON, legal papers, DEEDS, Leighton Buzzard alias Grovebury Manor, Billington Greyhound, mortgages, ENCLOSURE, copyhold, Billington Town Lands Charity, Billington Summerleys