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X547/41
Title
Agreement for sale of the Knotting Estate
Date free text
20 Sep 1917
Production date
From: 1882 To: 1917
Scope and Content
i) Samuel Howard Whitbread, Southill Henry William Whitbread, 11 Mansfield Street, London, Esquire Francis Pelham Whitbread, The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, Esquire ii) Albert Edward Bowen, Colworth Park, Esquire consideration - £28,250 - property as in schedule - manorial rights (if any) subject to vicarial tithe rent charge ii) to pay £2825 as deposit to Messrs Leman and Co, 44 Bloomsbury Square, London, on signing, and remainder on 29 September 1917 requisitions on title to be prepared and to commence with conveyance of 14 August 1882 other conditions schedule - Manor Farm (494.712 acres) - Knotting Hill Farm (373.362 acres) [Strawberry Hill] - Knotting Green Farm (380.737 acres) - Knotting Fox Farm (73.840 acres) - enclosures (9.318 acres) - cottages adjoining Strawberry Hill and Knotting Green Farms (2.177 acres) - cottages in centre of Manor Farm (2.034 acres) - cottages (Knotting Fox) (.537acres) - sporting rights - West Wood, Sheeprack Wood etc (207.347 acres) sporting rights are let to Sir Ryland Adkins on a tenancy expiring on 1 February 1918 at annual rent of £100 (reduced to £50 during war) roads not included but there is right to graze on part or all of roadside wastes running through property part of Knotting Fox Farm buildings are let to the purchaser at £1 per month from 24 June 1917 signatures of S H Whitbread and Francis Pelham Whitbread with plan
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