QSR1910/4/10/1/b(ii),(iii),(iv),(v)

County of Bedford, Division of Luton; on 18th July 1910 the Rural District Council of Luton assembled on application made by or on behalf of Edward Blundell of Cirencester in the County of Gloucester, Stanley Blundell of Bendish in the County of Hertford and Francis Crawley of Stockwood Luton resolved that Benjamin Belgrove Franklin the surveyor of and for the highways of the Rural District of Luton be authorised to give all notices and do all acts and things legally neccesary to lead to the stopping up as useless and unneccessary and (in view of the proposed substituted to be made) of a footpath in the parish of Limbury.

19th September 1910

From: 1910 To: 1910

The footpath leads from Limbury over the lands of Edward Blundell, Stanley Blundell and Francis Crawley Esquires in a south easterly direction to the main road from Limbury to Luton and thence to Biscot Mill and Luton. Reports from Benjamin Belgrove Franklin the Surveyor of Highways to Andrew Carruthers and Edwin Oakley Esquires two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, state that the footpath might be stopped up and diverted without inconvenience to the public because the new public highway proposed to be made by the Rural District Council of Luton will be more convenient and more commodious than the portion to be stopped up. The justices ask the surveyor to arrange for notices to be affixed to the doors of Biscot and Limbury Parish churches and published in the Luton News paper for 4 successive weeks in July and August 1910. A plan has been delivered to the said justices particularly describing the said portion of the public highway by metes bounds and admeasurments verified to and before usthe said justices by the oath of Benjamin Belgrove Franklin a competent surveyor and whereas Edward Blundell, Stanley Blundell amd Francis Crawley have by writings under their hands dated the 6th day of August 1910 consented to the proposed new public highway or footpath being made over or upon land belonging to them. The said justices certiy that on 13th July 1910 they viewed the said highway and the part to be stopped up, and they further certify that the reason why the proposed new highway will be more commodious to the public is because that part is for the greater part of its length a mere trodden track across an arable field and is ploughed up periodically, but the new highway will be of an uniform width of 6 feet and permanently made up with a good gravel surface. Given under our hands at the Court House at Luton in the County of Bedford this 19th September 1910, Signed Andrew Carruthers, Edwin Oakley

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Blundell, Edward,
Blundell, Stanley,
Crawley, Francis,
Franklin, Benjamin Belgrove,
Carruthers, Andrew,
Oakley, Edwin

LUTON, LIMBURY, Biscot, BEDFORD, footpaths, churches