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Counterpart Lease

14 Jan 1864

From: 1860 To: 1864

i) Reverend Robert Delap of Park Street, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, clerk ii) Thomas Cranfield of Roxton, yeoman … mansion house called Roxton House, farm house now occupied as labourer's cottage, formerly occupied by James Wilkerson, deceased, then Thomas Cranfield, and farmhouse at Great Barford occupied by ii) with 749 acres 37 perches land in Roxton and Great Barford … 36 acres 2 roods 39 perches in Roxton House and park … 3 cottages … 67 acres 1 rood 15 perches in Dog Kennel Field … 1 acre 3 roods 35 perches in same field … 17 perches in same field … 7 acres 1 rood 31 perches in Hill Field … 9 acres 1 rood 11 perches in Barford Meadow … 10 acres 35 perches in same meadow … 7 acres 3 roods 1 perch in the Holme … 17 acres 1 rood 37 perches in Roxton Little Meadow … 2 acres 6 perches in Stone Holme … 1 acre 29 perches in the Meadow … 17 acres 1 rood 37 perches in Tongue Hill Field … 21 acres 2 roods 16 perches in Twenty Acres … 17 acres 3 roods 19 perches in Chawson Road Field … 12 acres 18 perches in Bush Field … 11 acres 1 rood 25 perches in Long Spinney Field … 16 acres 2 roods 38 perches in Cranfield Close with coppice … 21 acres 2 roods 3 perches in Barford Field … 30 acres 3 roods 10 perches in Dale Field … 24 acres 3 roods 29 perches in Hovel Pasture … 58 acres 32 perches in Wood End Field … 9 acres 1 rood 20 perches in Barn Pasture … 2 cottages in High Barns … 32 acres 21 perches in Ley Field … 24 acres 9 perches in Saville Pasture … 2 roods 5 perches in Palace Yard Wood … 18 acres 24 perches in Mortons Pasture … 34 acres 1 rood 9 perches in Barn Field … 19 acres 1 rood 17 perches in Upper Pasture … 21 acres 30 perches in Furze Pasture … 21 acres 4 perches in First Stockings … 14 acres 2 roods 24 perches in Second Stocking … 10 acres 32 perches in Third Stocking … 15 acres 34 perches in Upper Langley Slip … 15 acres 3 roods 36 perches in Lower Langley Slip … 11 acres 2 roods 25 perches in Over the Way Field … 1 acre 3 roods 11 perches in First Home Meadow … 3 acres 12 perches in Second Home Meadow … 6 acres 3 roods 14 perches in Long Meadow … 12 acres 11 perches in Upper Lees … 5 acres 3 perches in Five Acres … 21 acres 2 roods 26 perches in Twenty One Acres … 15 acres 2 roods 32 perches in Sixteen Acres … 2 roods 5 perches part of Sixteen Acres … 4 acres 3 roods in Mill Green … 31 perches of ozier bed … 3 acres 1 rood 7 perches in River Close Rent: £1,274..17s per annum £6..0s..4d per annum for every £100 extended on premises as result of agreement between i) and General Land Drainage and Improvement Company of 29 May 1860 £30 for every acre of grassland ploughed Agricultural Covenants Reserved to i): timber, game and stabling for 9 horses Signed: ii) Witness: William Abbott, land agent, Aylesbury

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Delap, Robert,
Cranfield, Thomas,
Wilkerson, James,
General Land Drainage and Improvement Company

BUILDINGS & LAND USE, ESTATES (LANDED), London Park Street, Mayfair Grosvenor Square, clergy, clerk, ROXTON, yeoman, HOUSING, Roxton Roxton House, Roxton farms, cottages, labourer, Great Barford farms, Great Barford, agricultural leases, Roxton fields, Great Barford fields, Roxton Park, trees, Roxton High Barns Farm, osiers, Great Ouse, rentals, general legal process, DRAINAGE, AGRICULTURE, timber, game, stables