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Notice "D": Diversion for an Order for diverting and stopping up of public highway/footpath Biscot Road towards Limbury Village.

23rd November 1911

From: 1911 To: 1912

Notice Marked “D” Notice is hereby given THAT on the tenth day of April 1912 application will be made to His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace assembled in Quarter Session in and for the County of Bedford at Bedford for an order for diverting and stopping up a portion of a public highway or footpath in the Borough of Luton leading from Biscot Road in the aforesaid Borough of Luton towards the village of Limbury to stopping up entirely the portion of the aforesaid highway of footpath commencing in Biscot Road at a point about 240 yards North-West of Lansdowne Road and proceeding in a Northerly direction for a distance of 180 yards or thereabouts and thence in a North-Westerly direction for a further distance of 503 yards or thereabouts to the Boundary of the Borough of Luton aforesaid and that in lieu of the said highway or footpath so to be stopped up a new public highway or footpath be provided commencing at the point above mentioned in Biscot Road 240 yards North-West of Lansdowne Road and proceeding in a North-Westerly direction in a straight line for a distance of 674 yards to a point on the Boundary of the aforesaid Borough of Luton about 46 yards West of the point where the existing footpath (to be diverted as aforesaid) crosses the Boundary of the said Borough where it would unite with a footpath to be provided in the Parish of Limbury AND that the Certificate of two Justices having viewed the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be diverted and stopped up and the line of the said footpath so proposed to be made and that such proposed new highway or footpath will be nearer and more commodious to the public than the present highway or footpath so proposed to be diverted and stopped up together with the proof of due publication of the several notices required by the statue in that case made and provided and with the plan of the old and proposed new highway or footpath will be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace of the said County on or before the thirty-first day of January 1912. Dated the twenty-third day of November 1911 Signed J. W. Tomlinson Surveyor to the Borough of Luton

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LUTON, Luton Biscot Road, LIMBURY, footpaths, highways