The Marquess of Bute’s estate, freeholder of Great House Farm and much of Llandough. The plan of that 1938 conveyance has not been found.
Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough4 mutual friends
Western Ground Rents Ltd3 mutual friends
Mountjoy Ltd2 mutual friends
The Cedwyn Estate2 mutual friends
Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)1 mutual friend
Daniel Thomas & Son (Llandough Limeworks)1 mutual friend
The woodland north of the house1 mutual friend
Hurst & Jones0 mutual friends
The Vaughan family of the Great House0 mutual friendsNo public statements found yet; the record below involves them.
The deed’s plan, which would show exactly what land went, has not been found.
1965 contract for sale, condition F (EV-0216); National Library of Wales question ledger NLW-1019-3.
Remaining Bute property incorporated as Mountjoy Ltd.
Archive catalogue history: after 1900 the Glamorgan estate was divided; the remaining Bute property became Mountjoy Ltd in 1926.
Conveyance, John Marquis of Bute to Cardiff City Corporation, 23 February 1905, as recorded on HM Land Registry title WA735527 (land lying on the Leckwith side).
👍 2 The Bute Estate, Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)
HM Land Registry title register WA735527 (Legal Wiki copy).
Catalogue entry for the Bute coppice-woods auction including “Cwm Cydfin Wood (Leckwith and Llandough)”. Whether the soil or only the timber and coppice rights were sold, to whom and on what terms, is not in the catalogue.
Daniel Thomas of Penylan, a contractor under Lord Bute and the owner of “valuable lime kilns at Llandough”, dies; his obituary appears in Tarian y Gweithiwr. In April 1888 a local man is described as “a labourer at Llandough Quarry”: the works beside the farm carry on.
Tarian y Gweithiwr, December 1887 (obituary); press of 24 April 1888. Legal Wiki EV-0280.
Known from a later family statement (c.1974): Bute sold the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres (Parcel A) and kept about 9 acres (Parcel B).
👍 2 The Bute Estate, Daniel Thomas & Son (Llandough Limeworks)
Agreement, Marquess of Bute to Daniel Thomas & Son, 1877. The Bute deeds at the National Library of Wales describe “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks (33 a.), 1876-1912”.
👍 2 The Bute Estate, Daniel Thomas & Son (Llandough Limeworks)
Legal Wiki GHF-E115 (EV-0006); National Library of Wales, Bute deeds D153/4–8.
David Stewart’s survey of the Bute estates in Glamorgan maps the farm on plan 19 as “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”, 139 acres 3 roods 8 perches.
Glamorgan Archives DB/E/1, plan 19 and reference table, 1824. Legal Wiki EV-0211.
The Bute Estate acquires the freehold of the Great House in the early 19th century; the manorial courts for Llandough and Leckwith are then held in the house. The conveyance, and who sold, are not located.
Heneb HER GGAT02038s.
Purchase of the lordship by the Earl of Bute (Cardiff Records: Llandough’s later history follows Cogan, bought by the Earl in 1793).
The Bute manor presentments for Llandough begin in 1793 (NLW catalogue, not yet seen).
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