Western Ground Rents Ltd

Residential ground rents in South Wales sold to Cefn Estates

The Great House Farm land is not part of the sale.

Registration of the green as village green VG41 (Commons Registration Act 1965; Glamorgan County Council the registration authority).

Not published here.

The woodland title history runs WGR → BP → Ideal Homes → Forest of Cardiff.

Chain as reported in the woodland assessment.

Conveyance with plan, Western Ground Rents to BP Pension Trust Ltd

The conveyance and its plan (EV-0043) have not been obtained: what BP took, and the title recited, are not yet known.

An agreed bid for the whole of Western Ground Rents Ltd

The sale of the farm to BP Pension Trust follows on 31 December 1969.

Conveyance, WGR to BP Pension Trust, recited as the root of BP’s title. For the house it carried the benefit of the 1962 order.

BP’s agreed bid of 15 Feb 1969 took WGR’s properties “for their pension fund” (press).

Cardiff County Court possession order of the farmhouse and garden (Judge Temple Morris QC).

The Court of Appeal records that nothing was done before 1974 to enforce the 1962 order.

The register lists the deed against the land tinted pink.

The same deed; the South Western Brick & Tile Company is party (2).

Listed on title WA735527.

“It’s a Crichel Down …” woman farmer

Mrs. M D. Buckler was objecting to further industrial development in the vicinity of her farm, Ty Mawr, Penarth Road, Llandough. Land farmed by her family since 1667 had been “wrongfully appropriated.”

The same 1955 order.

The family’s case: the woodland and the green were taken in 1955 with Parcel B, just after Mary’s amputation, when she could not defend them.

Order 14 possession order, executed 4 July 1955.

The Court of Appeal recounts the 1955 order as concerning the whole farm.

The gift of Leckwith Woods is completed

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.”

Gift of about 110 acres of woodland at Leckwith, WGR to Cardiff Corporation.

Press reports and the council’s own history.

Exactly which land it carried is still open.