| EV ID | EV-0236 |
|---|---|
| Title | Local Government Board, Water undertakings (England and Wales) Return: Bute estate spring supply at Llandough |
| Date of document | 28 July 1914 (Return to an order of the House of Commons dated 24 November 1910) |
| Type | parliamentary return |
| Evidence label | OFFICIAL PUBLICATION (public online copy) |
| Repository / reference | Internet Archive, b21357705 (OCR text) |
| Status | READ (public online copy, OCR). Whether this supply served Great House Farm: UNCONFIRMED. |
| Provenance | Found (water lead), 19 Oct 2026; text re-read 19 Oct 2026. |
| Related evidence | EV-0037 (water “cut off … by order of Western Ground Rents”, 1958) · Kissed Frogs register |
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Quotation (OCR): “Marquess of Bute. — Supplies Penarth U.D. (part). Source of Supply (Nature and Sufficiency). — Spring from Lias limestone, Llandough. Yield not known. Works. — No filtration. No reservoir. Quantity of Water supplied. — Generally adequate. Quality of Water. — Good, but hard.”
Context: the same Return lists Cardiff Town Council as supplying “Penarth U.D. (part)”. The farm was a Bute estate farm until the estate land passed to Western Ground Rents. If the farm drew on an estate spring rather than the public main, a landlord could cut it off (inference, unconfirmed).
Proves: In 1914 the Bute estate ran a private spring supply at Llandough serving part of Penarth Urban District.
Does not prove: That Great House Farm was on that supply, in 1914 or in 1948–58.
