EV-0622 — Crichel Down rules and military land: what applies at Llandough, and three unread files (TNA MAF 11/1022, HLG 23/17384, MH 96/291)

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EV ID	EV-0622
Title	Crichel Down rules and military land: what applies at Llandough, and three unread files (TNA MAF 11/1022, HLG 23/17384, MH 96/291)
Date of document	1925–1958
Type	research leads
Evidence label	LEADS — FILES NOT YET SEEN
Repository / reference	The National Archives: MAF 11/1022 (Leckwith exchange-of-land order, Cardiff RDC, 21 Nov 1958); HLG 23/17384 (St Athan housing order, 1938); MH 96/291 (Cardiff CBC building Llandough Hospital, 1925–26). National Farm Survey MAF 32/1220/39 also unread.
Status	PENDING — order or view at Kew.
Provenance	Research memo, 25 Oct 2026 (Crichel Down lens).
Related entries	EV-0037, EV-0035, EV-0038

Shows: The Crichel Down rules cover surplus land a public body bought under compulsion and offer it back to the former freeholder. MAF 11/1022 is dated two days after Mrs M. D. Buckler called the losses "a Welsh case of Crichel Down" (EV-0037).

Does not show: No requisition of this farm, and no Air Ministry or airfield taking of it, has been found on file. Where public bodies took land nearby, the party of record was Bute, Mountjoy, WGR or a developer.

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