EV-0022 — Press reports of completion of Bute (Mountjoy) sale of Cardiff ground rents to Western Ground Rents
| EV ID | EV-0022 |
|---|---|
| Title | Press reports of completion of Bute (Mountjoy) sale of Cardiff ground rents to Western Ground Rents |
| Date of document | 24 December 1938 (reports); completion 23 December 1938 |
| Type | press |
| Evidence label | PRESS REPORT |
| Repository / reference | Western Mail 24 Dec 1938 p.8; Gloucestershire Echo 24 Dec 1938; Trove (NLA) articles 184130218, 285771557, 46287600, 49452751, 243266257; Time, 30 May 1938. |
| Status | PENDING — Trove articles are free online; Western Mail page image via British Newspaper Archive subscription. |
| Provenance | Found from Trove full texts and BNA search results. |
| Claims that rely on this | None linked yet |
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Proves: Newspapers reported that the sale of the Bute Cardiff estate interests to Western Ground Rents was completed on 23 December 1938.
Does not prove: The reports are general. They do not mention Llandough or Tŷ Mawr, and do not show which parcels were included or on what terms.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
Title chain and registration
THEORY · R-01Ground R5: the court's starting point — a Feb 1916 tenancy of "the whole of the farm" and BP's "paper title to the farm" — would fail for the farmhouse if the 1938 Bute → Western Ground Rents conveyance did not include it. The 1905 Bute conveyance and the 1924 drain agreement show Bute dealing with land here, so either the house came back to the main estate by a deed not yet seen, or the 1916 recital is loose.
Rests on: EV-0013 · EV-0014 · EV-0015 · EV-0019 · EV-0022 (this page) · EV-0023 · EV-0216 · EV-0045 · ground R5
Would be confirmed by: The 1938 conveyance plan showing the house parcel excluded.
Would be refuted by: The 1938 plan including it. Cuts against: paper title was not in issue in 1987 (E26), and the NLW 33-acre limeworks bundle (1876–1912) fits a letting that ended in 1912 rather than a sale (E43).
Status: Open (ground R5, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)
Cited on
36 pages link here.
- EV-0013 — Bute conveyance of 23 February 1905 referred to on the WA231076 file
- EV-0014 — Bute yearly agricultural tenancy to John Williams, with plan
- EV-0019 — Bute Estate to Western Ground Rents Ltd conveyance of reversion, with plan
- EV-0020 — Western Ground Rents rental books and plan book (D696), c.1938–1944
- EV-0023 — DBDT123/7 — 1939 agreement, Western Ground Rents to John Williams, with plan
- EV-0024 — Glamorgan Archives D1777/1: post-1938 Bute/Mountjoy estate-office maps
- EV-0045 — Abstract of Title, 1971 (BP Pension Trust) — lodged with the 1982–83 first registrations, per HM Land Registry; contents not held
- EV-0216 — 1965 contract, condition F: root of title “a Conveyance on sale dated 25th December 1938”
- EV-0257 — Glamorgan Archives D696: Western Ground Rents Ltd records 1938–44 (a syndicate headed by Lord Kennet; Bute urban leaseholds bought from Mountjoy Ltd for £5m in 1938); records donated by Capital Law, Cardiff, April 2010 (custodial history)
- EV-0262 — TNA LT 13/3048: Western Ground Rents Ltd v the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Cardiff, Lands Tribunal, 1965–67 (compulsory purchase compensation; catalogue entry)
- EV-0278 — NLW Bute estate records: Llandough manor rentals 1808–1881 (R 6/27–45) and presentments 1793–1934 (M 17/110–314) (catalogue entries; not seen)
- EV-0291 — NLW Bute Estate Records catalogue: D153/1–8 (Llandough: “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks”, 1876–1912) set beside the Pwllypant estate files D242, D247 and D258 (Eglwysilan)
- EV-0607 — Twelve-year rainbow chart: dated pairs on one timeline, 1877–1987 (analysis, 25 Oct 2026) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0608 — Twelve-year pairs stacked from a common start, with 26 numbered event notes (analysis, 25 Oct 2026) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0609 — Parcel-by-parcel table: 21 takings of Cedwyn / Tŷ Mawr land, with the event before each and its gap (analysis, 25 Oct 2026) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0611 — Llandough Rectory sold at auction, 7 October 1926; plan marks adjoining land "part of the Bute Estate" (Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/5085) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0612 — Bute lets land near Lewis Road, Llandough, to Penarth Urban District Council, December 1926 (Glamorgan Archives DBDT123/6) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0614 — Mountjoy Ltd in the Bute estate catalogue: "In 1926, the remaining Bute property was incorporated under a private family company called Mountjoy Ltd" (TNA Discovery, GB 0214 DB administrative history) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0621 — Root of title: the 25 December 1938 conveyance, and why the 31 December 1969 sale fell under the 30-year rule (LPA 1925 s.44(1); LPA 1969 ss.23, 31(2)) — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0624 — Mountjoy Ltd formed in May 1922 as the 4th Marquess of Bute’s estate company (£1,000,000; named after his title Viscount Mountjoy); lord of Llandough court leet in 1932 — Cedwyn Research Library
- EV-0625 — The 1938 sale as one transaction: contracts 17 May 1938, Western Ground Rents registered 4–5 July 1938, manors kept back, Mountjoy as mortgagee to 1944 — Cedwyn Research Library
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- 1000 Cuts · a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm, 1870s–1988
- 1000 Cuts: a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm (1870s–1988) — Great House Farm Wiki
- D696 — Western Ground Rents Rental Books & Plan Book — Litigation Evidence Lead
- DBDT123/7 — 1939 WGR–John Williams Tenancy Agreement + Plan
- El caso de la familia · Argentina
- GHF-E118 — February 1916 Bute yearly tenancy to John Williams, with plan
- GHF-E121 — 1938 Bute–Western Ground Rents conveyance and plan
- GHF-E132 — 1971 abstract of title (BP Pension Trust)
- Press reports of the 1938 Bute sale to Western Ground Rents — Research
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