EV-0035 — Western Mail: “City wants common for play-field” — Leckwith Common inquiry (Mrs Mary Doreen Buckler)

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EV IDEV-0035
TitleWestern Mail: “City wants common for play-field” — Leckwith Common inquiry (Mrs Mary Doreen Buckler)
Date of document7 May 1958 (inquiry 6 May 1958)
Typepress
Evidence labelPRESS REPORT
Repository / referenceWestern Mail, Wednesday 7 May 1958, p.7 (British Newspaper Archive). Related file: TNA BD 11/3775.
StatusPENDING — Page image: British Newspaper Archive subscription.
ProvenanceBNA search-result OCR windows read; page image not seen.
Claims that rely on thisPress and Archive Leads — October 2026

Quotation: “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.” (OCR)

Proves: Reported: at the 6 May 1958 inquiry into Cardiff’s Leckwith Common proposal, Mrs Mary Doreen Buckler of Great House Farm said her family had been allowed land, a right of way and grazing rights by Lord Bute.

Does not prove: It does not establish that any such right existed or was registered. Hansard (25 Nov 1958) records no petition against the order.

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).

Demolition, archaeology and the green

THEORY · H-03Ground R8: VG41 was registered in 1970 by Glamorgan County Council as registration authority; the same council's planning committee had heard her, reported as Mrs M. D. Buckler, on 19 Nov 1958 describe her family's land as "wrongfully appropriated". Working hypothesis: a separate route on the green, not a ground to reopen the 1987 judgment.

Rests on: EV-0044 · EV-0263 · EV-0232 · EV-0035 (this page) · EV-0036 · ground R8

Would be confirmed by: The Commons Commissioner or county council file on VG41.

Would be refuted by: A file showing the 1958 hearing and the green were handled by unconnected officers with no notice of the dispute.

Status: Open (ground R8, scores a1 b0 c2 d1)

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