• Reference
    DCSK1/10
  • Title
    John Clutton reporting as to the encroachments in the manor of Dunstable.
  • Date free text
    9 Jan 1854
  • Production date
    From: 1854 To: 1854
  • Received from Central Bedfordshire Council as successors to South Beds District Council in 2019.
  • Scope and Content
    Explains what he has set out in the schedule and his opinion that the manor should not be sold as a whole until the letting arrangements and attorning of the encroachments has been sorted out. Schedule of encroachments for which the occupiers have already attorned - gives: number on plan [this refers to Mr Dirver's plan - not present]; lessee or Crown Tenant; Occupier; Description of premises; length of term and commencement of lease; quantity; rent reserved; estimate net annual value of the premises as now existing; remarks 1853. [Includes: market house and reading room; a yard and whitening shed; beer shop called The Royal Oak; cottages in 6 tenements formerly a chapel with yards]. Schedule of encroachments of more than 20 years standing for which the tenants have not attorned [includes the stable and shed of the George beer shop]. Schedule of encroachments made within 20 years [includes brick built and slated beer shop called the first and last'].
  • Level of description
    item