Reference
X478/18
Title
Memorandum of Agreement for Sale
Date free text
1 Aug 1851
Production date
From: 1851 To: 1851
Scope and Content
i) Oswald Lee Rasch of West Ham, Essex, gentleman
William Bowyer of Sottise [?Southoe], Huntingdonshire, gentleman
Robert Beart of Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, gentleman
trustees for sale of Roxton estate
ii) Samuel Harwood of Bradley Hall near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, esquire
… messuage called Roxton House with appurtenances and 167 acres 3 roods 24 perches arable, pasture, wood and plantation in Roxton and Great Barford, formerly occupied by Charles James Metcalfe, esquire
… Dale and High Barn Farms in Roxton and Great Barford with 495 acres 3 roods 38 perches pasture, wood, arable and plantation now occupied by James Wilkerson
… Pear Tree Farm in Roxton and Great Barford with 263 acres 1 rood 18 perches arable, pasture now occupied by John Newling
… Colesden Bell Farm in Roxton with 349 acres 1 rood 3 perches arable and pasture now occupied by James Wilkerson and John Newling
… Chawson Manor Farm in Roxton and Eaton Socon with 294 acres 1 rood 29 perches arable and pasture now occupied by James Wilkerson under 10 year lease from Michaelmas 1850
… Netherbury Farm in Great Barford with 155 acres 2 roods 13 perches now occupied by Messrs Cranfield as yearly tenants
… 5 cottages and 1 rood garden in Roxton occupied by Kitely, Webb, Manning and 2 others
… 5 acres 2 roods 24 perches allotment adjoining Biggins Wood occupied by William King and others
… cottage and 35 perches garden occupied by Samuel Bond
… 5 acres 20 perches called Great Broad Moor occupied by Daniel Allen
… 2 acres 25 perches called Little Broad Moor
… 1 acre 1 rood 4 perches called Violet Grove occupied by Thomas Haines
… 7 acres 20 perches called Three Cornered Close Allotments occupied by James Sawyer and others
… 11 acres 1 rood 29 perches called Middle Close Allotments occupied by Jonas Darrington and others
… 11 acres 30 perches called Three Cornered Close or Colesden Green occupied by James Sawyer and others
… 14 acres 1 rood 26 perches called Dale Field Allotments occupied by Jeremiah Jarvis
… 1 rood 24 perches ozier ground called Botany Bay Island, also 3 small ozier beds in Great Barford containing 3 roods 26 perches
… 11 acres 2 roods 25 perches in Great Barford called Over The Way Field, late occupied by Martha Allen, now Miss Crawfield
… following cottages and land in Roxton:
… 5 acres 23 perches late used as gardens called Nags Head Field
… chapel with schoolroom and garden lately forming part of Park, near Homestead Farm
… all houses late occupied by Reverend Mr Winzar and bailiff of Charles James Metcalfe
… 10 cottages occupied by James Parker, William Beale, John King, John Baines, Thomas Ward, William Jarvis, John Paine, Maria Hill, James Derrington and others
… house and wheelwrights shop with 2 acres 31 perches, land adjoining occupied by Pearson Cartwright George
… house and bakehouse with outbuildings occupied by William Cooper and Edward Brace
… 4 cottages, gardens and 2 acres 2 roods 24 perches called Lovells Pasture occupied by John Darrington and undertenants
… 1 acre 2 roods 10 perches opposite Chawson House and cottage near, now occupied by John Gilbers
… 2 cottages occupied by Charles Howard and William Horner
… timber growing on estate and all fixtures in Roxton House, vault, in or near chapel except properties in chapel and schoolroom
… lordships of manors of Netherbury in Great Barford, Roxton, Chalversterne alias Chawson and Eaton Soken
… right of fishery in River Ouze
Consideration: £68,250
Purchase to be completed by 29 September 1851 or interest charged at 4% per annum
Signed: i) and ii)
Witnesses: Herbert Chawner, 51 Old Broad Street
Martin Hunnybern, solicitor, Huntingdon
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