Body · owner of Leckwith Woods from 1942
6 posts · 1942–1961 · 5 friends
Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)
No public statements found yet; the record below involves them.
The register lists the deed against the land tinted pink.
👍 3 Western Ground Rents Ltd, South Western Brick & Tile Co., Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)
London Gazette, 31 October 1958, p.6652: notice of the Minister’s intention to lay before Parliament “the City of Cardiff (Leckwith Common) Compulsory Purchase Order, 1957, confirmed by him on the 8th September 1958, under section 5 of the Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937”.
London Gazette, issue 41537, 31 October 1958, p.6652 (read in full). Legal Wiki EV-0287.
Mrs. Mary Doreen Buckler, of Great House Farm, Llandough, said she did not oppose the proposal so long as it applied only to playing fields. About 130 years ago Lord Bute allowed her family “a slice of land” which was now Leckwith Common.
Western Mail, 7 May 1958, p.7 (Leckwith Common inquiry, 6 May 1958). British Newspaper Archive search-result text. Legal Wiki EV-0035; the order’s confirmation, London Gazette, 31 October 1958: EV-0287.
Leckwith Woods … “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942” … “outside the boundary” …
Western Mail, 18 March and 28 October 1955. British Newspaper Archive search-result text only. Legal Wiki EV-0259.
The gift was offered and accepted in 1940, though the transfer of ownership was not formally completed until April 1942. The deed included a covenant that the land be used as a playing field, park, recreation or pleasure ground only.”
👍 2 Western Ground Rents Ltd, Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)
Gift of about 110 acres of woodland at Leckwith, WGR to Cardiff Corporation.
Press reports and the council’s own history.
👍 2 Western Ground Rents Ltd, Cardiff Corporation (Cardiff City Council)
Small print: dotted links explain a word (see the glossary); amber-shaded links list every name the records use for the same thing.
Western Ground Rents Ltd4 mutual friends
Leckwith Woods2 mutual friends
Western Mail2 mutual friends
South Western Brick & Tile Co.1 mutual friend
The Bute Estate1 mutual friend