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Exhibit Number - N.G.2
Highway act 1835, sections 84 and 85.
Parish of Goldington, Bedfordshire , and the Borough of Bedford.
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Public Notice is Hereby Given,
That on the 30th day of June, 1920, APPLICATION will be made to His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, assembled at Quarter Sessions, in and for the County of Bedford, at the Shire Hall, in the Borough of Bedford, for an ORDER STOPPING UP as being unnecessary the HIGHWAY which formerly started at or near Newnham Road, in the said Borough, and proceeded in an easterly direction by or near the Public Footpath along the northern bank of the River Ouse there to a point at or near Newnham Bridge.
AND FURTHER, that the Certificate of two Justices of the County aforesaid and two Justices of the Borough aforesaid, having viewed the same, and proof given to their satisfaction of the several notices required by the Statute in that behalf having been published, with the Plan of the said Highway, will be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace of the said County on the 15th day of May next.
Dated this 31st day of March, 1920.
Bedford Rural District Council.
(signed) W. G. Daniels, Clerk.
(signed) John Saunders, Surveyor.
Bedford Town Council.
(signed) Chas. Stimson, Town Clerk.
(signed) N. Greenshields. Borough Surveyor.
Entered in Margin:
This is the exhibit marked NG2 referred to in the Declaration of Norman Greenshield and Edward Herbert Radcliffe. Taken before me this 15th day of May 1920.
(signed) Paul W. Wyatt
(signed) Frederick W. Conquest
Justices of the Peace for the County of Bedford
(signed) J W Carter
(signed) Henry Bacchus
Justices of the Peace for the Borough of Bedford.
Rear of Document:-
A notice, of which this is a true copy, was posted by me on 1st April 1920 as follows: -
1. In shrubbery, Newnham Avenue, East side of Ancient Highway, at 2.20p.m.
2. Opposite Sewage Pumping Station, Newnham Avenue, West side of Ancient Highway, at 2.33p.m.
3. South East corner of Shaftesbury Avenue, north side of Ancient Highway, at 2.40p.m.
4. Opposite Shaftesbury Avenue, South side of Ancient Highway, at 2.45 p.m.
5. South East corner Bushmead Avenue, North side of Ancient Highway, at 2.55p.m.
6. Opposite Bushmead Avenue, South side of Ancient Highway, at 3.0p.m.
7. Opposite Rothsay Road, North side of Ancient Highway, at 3.6 p.m.
8. Opposite Rothsay Road, South side of Ancient Highway, at 3.10 p.m.
9. Opposite the Baulk, North side of Ancient Highway, at 3.15 p.m.
10 Opposite the Baulk, South side of Ancient Highway, at 3.19 p.m.
11. South East corner Albany Road, North side of Ancient Highway, at 3.23 .pm
12. Opposite Albany Road, South side of Ancient Highway, at 3.26 p.m.
13. In Newnham Road, North side of Ancient Highway, at 3.30 .m.
14. Opposite Newnham Road, South side and end of Ancient Highway, at 3.32 p.m.
(signed & dated) E. H. Radcliffe 1/4/1920