Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    X440/552
  • Title
    Deed of Mutual Covenant
  • Date free text
    8 May 1868
  • Production date
    From: 1868 To: 1868
  • Scope and Content
    i) John Nathaniel Foster ii) purchasers (as in schedule below) whereas: i) has laid out & is about to complete roads to be dedicated to the public as highways, & drains, the highways to be called Western Road, Saffron Road & Dolphin Crescent each person in schedule is a purchaser & each must execute this deed now: i) covenants to complete said roads; if he or purchaser shall repair & cleanse roads & drains which cannot be done from some rate, then will demand access to accounts of repair within 14 days; purchasers agree to contribute to repairs of roads & drains by ii), to maintain fences & erect same, to erect nothing contrary to conditions: - every house to face road on which its building land abuts - fences to be on boundary lines & not above 5' - no house in Western Road to be of less value than £300 or in Dolphin Crescent or Saffron Road than £150 - back building line is in rear of front building line - no building in rear of main building space to be used as dwelling house & no building there to be more than 25’ - these regulations not applicable to strips Y & Z on Western Road - anything erected contrary to regulation to be pulled down by owner ii) will not suffer any trade etc which is noisy or offensive to be carried on. schedule; James Tingey of Cow Fair Lands, Biggleswade shoemaker George James Armantage Wells of Biggleswade basketmaker John Steed of Baldock, Hertfordshire brewer Horace Isaac Barker of Bigglewade solicitor Henry Franklin of Bigglewade merchant Henry Rutherford of Biggleswade draper witness: Edward J Foster, Lincolns Inn, barrister at law
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