QSR1914/3/10/2e

Notice from Borough of Luton re: the stopping up of a footpath, Cowridge End - Stockingstone Lane

13th May 1914

From: 1914 To: 1914

"L" hand written in red ink at top of page. No.2 Borough of Luton Notice is hereby Given That on the 1st day of July 1914, application will be made to His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace assembled in Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Bedford at Bedford for an Order for diverting and stopping up a portion of the Public Highway or Footpath in the Borough of Luton leading from the North-East corner of the People’s Park in the aforesaid Borough of Luton towards Stockingstone Lane at Cowridge End by stopping up entirely a portion of the aforesaid Highway or Footpath commencing at the said North-East Corner of the People’s Park aforesaid marked “G” on the plan and proceeding in a Northerly direction for a distance of 40 yards or thereabouts and thence in a North- Easterly direction for a further distance of 70 yards or thereabouts to the point marked “F” on the said plan thence again in a Northerly direction for a further distance of 205 yards or thereabouts again in a North-Easterly direction for a further 62 yards or thereabouts to the point marked “H” on the said plan in Stockingstone Lane aforesaid and that in lieu of the said Highway or footpath so to be stopped up a new Public Highway or Footpath to be provided commencing at the point marked “G” on the said plan above mentioned at the North-East corner of the People’s Park aforesaid and proceeding in a straight line in a Northerly direction for a distance of 54 yard or thereabouts to the point marked “L” on the said plan and then proceeding in a North- Easterly direction for a distance of 30 yards or thereabouts to a point marked “K” on the said plan in a newly made road called Richmond Hill and thence again in a Northerly direction along the said Richmond Hill terminating at the said point marked “H” in Stockingstone Lane a further distance of 288 yards or thereabouts and that the Certificate of two Justices having viewed the said Public Highway or Footpath so proposed to be stopped up and the line of the said Footpath so proposed to be made and that such proposed new Highway or Footpath will be properly paved and be nearer and more commodious and convenient to the public than the present Highway or Footpath so proposed to b e diverted and stopped up together with a proof of due publication of the several Notices required by the Statue in that case made and provided and that the plan of the land and proposed new Highway or Footpath will be lodged with the Clerk the peace of the said county on or before 30th day of May, 1914. Dated this 9th day of April, 1914 J. W. Tomlinson, Borough Surveyor. This is the exhibit marked “L” referred to in the deposition of John William Tomlinson. Dated 13th day of May 1914 Signed William Austin, Clerk to the Justice.

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