QSR1921/1/10/1c(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)

Certificate of Justices View Of a certain highway of footpath at Stopsley in the Parish of Stopsley in the County of Bedford proposed to be diverted and stopped up.

29th November 1920

From: 1920 To: 1921

QSR1921/1/10/1a(iv) Petty Sessional Division of Luton (No.3) Certificate of Justices View Of a certain highway of footpath at Stopsley in the Parish of Stopsley in the County of Bedford proposed to be diverted and stopped up. QSR1921/1/10/1a(i) To His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the County of Bedford in General Sessions assembled. We the undersigned Edwin Oakley and Walter James Primett Esquires whose names are hereunto set and subscribed being two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting and for the Petty Sessional Division of Luton in the said county in pursuance of the Statute made and passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William IV Cap 50 Certified under our hands as follows: - Whereas on the twentieth day of September One thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty the Rural District Council of Luton in the County of Bedford being under and by virtue of the Public Health Act 1875 the Sanitary Authority of the said District which comprises the whole of the Parish of Stopsley in the said County and by the said Act empowered to exercise and are subject to all powers authorities duties and liabilities which by the Highways Act 1835 are vested in and given to the inhabitants of the said Parish of Stopsley in Vestry assembled duly applied to us by HAROLD PICKERING their surveyor duly authorised in that behalf to view a certain public highway or footpath situated within the said Parish of Stopsley in the sad Petty Sessional Division of Luton and the said County of Bedford viz, so much of the public highway or footpath leading from the point “O” on the plan hereunto annexed to the point “A” on the said plan and by a branch to the Point “S” on the said plan with respect to a proposal made by the said council that the said public highways or footpath be diverted by stopping up entirely the said portion of the existing highway or footpath coloured dark brown and marked No.3 on the said plan and marking in lieu thereof another good and sufficient highway commencing at Hitchin Road as the point “B” on the said plan and proceeding to the point “A” on the said plan and the position of which said intended new public highway is coloured Green on the said plan. AND WHEREAS John Locke Lempriere of 115 High Holborn in the City of London, Gentleman has by a writing under his hand consented to the said new public highway or footpath being made over or upon certain lands belonging to him AND WHEREAS on the Twenty Seventh day of September One Thousand and Nine Hundred and Twenty we the said Justices in pursuance of such application and request and of the Statute in that behalf made and provided did together and in the presence of each other at the same time view the said public highway or footpath hereinbefore described and proposed to be stopped up diverted and turned as aforesaid and the line of the new public highway or footpath so proposed to be made in lieu thereof as a foresaid and upon such view so made by us aforesaid it appeared to us the said Justices that the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up diverted or turned as aforesaid may be diverted or turned so as to make QSR1921/1/10/1a(ii) The same more commodious to the Public by making in lieu of such part so stopped up the said new public highway or footpath so proposed to be made as aforesaid NOW Therefore WE the said Justices did direct the said Rural district Council for four successive weeks next after we the said Justices viewed the public highway hereinbefore described viz on the second, ninth, sixteenth and the twenty third days of October One thousand Nine Hundred and twenty to affix a notice and in pursuance of such directions the said Rural District Council did affix a notice copy of which is hereunto annexed marked “D” in the form or to the effect of Schedule No.19 annexed to the Statute in that case made and provided in legible characters at the place and by the said of each end of the said public highway or footpath from whence the same is proposed to be diverted or turned or stopped up as a foresaid and thereby gave notice that on the fifth day of January One thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty one 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 turning and stopping up the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up diverted or turned as aforesaid and that the certificate of two Justices having viewed the same and stating the reason why the same may be stopped up diverted or turned as aforesaid with the plan of the same laid before them will be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the said County on or before the fourth day of December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty AND the said District Council in pursuance of the directions also given to them by us the said Justices in that behalf for four successive weeks next after we the said Justices so viewed the public highway or footpath hereinbefore described viz on the Thirteenth day of September and the Seventh, fourteenth and Twenty First days of October One Thousand and Nine Hundred and Twenty respectively inserted the same notice as last aforesaid in a certain newspaper called the “Luton News” being a Newspaper published in and circulating in the said district of the District Council and the County of Bedford and, also on four successive Sundays next after making such view by us the said Justices as aforesaid viz on the Third, Tenth, Seventeenth and Twenty fourth days of October One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty the said Rural District Council in pursuance of the like directions to them by us given affixed like notices on the door of the Parish Churches of Stopsley in which the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up or diverted wholly lies and on the door of the Parish church of St. Mary’s Luton NOW THEREFORE WE the said Justices on this the Twenty Ninth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty upon proof duly made to our satisfaction of which proof exhibits marked respectively E, F, G, and H QSR1921/1/10/1a(iii) that the several notices herein before mentioned have been respectively given affixed and published as aforesaid and a plan hereto annexed marked “A” having at the same time been delivered to us particularly describing the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up diverted or turned by metes bounds and admeasurements thereof and which plan has this day been verified to and before us the said Justices by the evidence of Harold Pickering a competent Surveyor whose deposition in respect thereto is hereto annexed marked “L” DO HEREBY CERTIFY under our hands in pursuance of the said Statute in such case made and provided that on the said Twenty Seventh day of September One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty we together and in the presence of each other at the same time viewed the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up diverted or turned as said and also the line of the new public highway or footpath proposed to be made in lieu thereof AND that upon such view so made by us we found that such new public highway or footpath so proposed would be more commodious to the Public AND WE HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY that the reason why the proposed new public highway or footpath will be more commodious to the Public is as follows: - The said new public highway so proposed to be made will be more commodious in that it will be of a uniform width of not less than six feet and a better made metalled footpathway in that it is to be made of clinker or other hard approved metal than the said public highway or footpath so proposed to be stopped up diverted or turned as aforesaid GIVEN under our hands at Luton in the Parish of Luton within the Petty Sessional Division of Luton in the County of Bedford within which the said Parish of Stopsley is situated the Twenty ninth day of November One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty. Signed: Edwin Oakley W. J. Primett Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Petty Sessional Division of Luton in the County of Bedford.

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Oakley, Edwin,
Primett, Walter James,
Lempriere, John Locke

STOPSLEY, LUTON, High Holborn, London, Public Health Act 1875, sanitary authorities, highways, footpaths