• Reference
    X440/725
  • Title
    Certificate of Contract for the Redemption of Land Tax
  • Date free text
    4 Apr 1868
  • Production date
    From: 1868 To: 1868
  • Scope and Content
    Redemption by Blyth Foster of Biggleswade esquire of £8.3.4 tax on: - 4 meadows known as the Spectacles, 18 acres 1 rood 1 perch on West of road from Biggleswade to Langford - Lower Holme Side, arable, 22 acres 1 rood 6 perches on East of Langford road opposite last described meadows - arable called Saffron Ground 3 acres 3 roods 25 perches divided from last described piece by common baulk bounded North West by Station road - Hancocks Field, arable 3 acres 3 roods 35 perches bounded West by Station Road & intersected by Great Northern Railway - Lammas land called the Grass Delves 2 acres on East of Great Northern Railway station - piece of land on South of Shortmead Street forming frontage to Beaumont's Close, containing 1 rood - 3 tenements & yards 30 poles on West of Shortmead Street : North Beaumont's Close in occupation of William Leake, Robert Broom, Mrs. Martin Robarts
  • Level of description
    item