A different wood from the one north of the farmhouse. Whether the 1942 gift bears on Parcel A is a working theory.
No public statements found yet; the record below involves them.
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.
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)
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