New in the catalogue — 25 October 2026
These entries come from the research of 25 October 2026: the title chain from Bute to registration, the dated twelve-year pairs, the parcel-by-parcel table and the authenticity audit. Each source is described by the legal status it supports — manorial title, a conveyance recited in later documents, or registration as proprietor. Charts are for discussion; dates come from the cited records; nothing here is a finding of any court.
See the same records told other ways: the animated title chain · the museum tour · the money record · 1000 Cuts · the e-book supplement (PDF).
Twelve-year rainbow chart: dated pairs on one timeline, 1877–1987 (analysis, 25 Oct 2026)
RESEARCH ARTIFACT — ANALYSIS OF CATALOGUED RECORDS
Twelve-year pairs stacked from a common start, with 26 numbered event notes (analysis, 25 Oct 2026)
RESEARCH ARTIFACT — ANALYSIS OF CATALOGUED RECORDS
Parcel-by-parcel table: 21 takings of Cedwyn / Tŷ Mawr land, with the event before each and its gap (analysis, 25 Oct 2026)
RESEARCH ARTIFACT — ANALYSIS OF CATALOGUED RECORDS
Llandough quarry and lime works plant catalogued for sale, 10 November 1925 (Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/4888)
ARCHIVE CATALOGUE ENTRY — DOCUMENT NOT YET SEEN
Llandough Rectory sold at auction, 7 October 1926; plan marks adjoining land "part of the Bute Estate" (Glamorgan Archives DSA/12/5085)
ARCHIVE CATALOGUE ENTRY — DOCUMENT NOT YET SEEN
Bute lets land near Lewis Road, Llandough, to Penarth Urban District Council, December 1926 (Glamorgan Archives DBDT123/6)
ARCHIVE CATALOGUE ENTRY — DOCUMENT NOT YET SEEN
Bute Glamorgan manorial records: court books to 1937, extinguishment of manorial incidents 1929–40, Ministry of Agriculture correspondence 1938, steward for the "Glamorgan manors of Mountjoy Ltd" 1937 (Glamorgan Archives DB/M/1–21)
ARCHIVE CATALOGUE ENTRIES — DOCUMENTS NOT YET SEEN
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)
ARCHIVE CATALOGUE TEXT
London Gazette, 29 October 1926, p.7040: release of the liquidator of Lewis & Pritchard Ltd, quarry firm ("surplus plant at Llandough" sold Aug 1925)
PUBLISHED RECORD
Law of Property Act 1922, ss.128 and 138: all copyhold enfranchised into freehold from 1 January 1926; manorial incidents to be extinguished within ten years
LAW — ENACTED TEXT
The twelve-year rule for land: Real Property Limitation Act 1874 (from 1 January 1879), restated by the Limitation Act 1939 (in force 1 July 1940)
LAW — ENACTED TEXT AND STANDARD SOURCES
Press, 1904–05: Cardiff’s Western Sewer Sub-committee completes the conveyance of the pumping-station site and sewer easements from the representatives of Lord Bute (Evening Express 23 Mar 1905; Weekly Mail 11 Jun 1904)
PUBLISHED RECORD — NEWSPAPER TEXT
Covenant wording: Western Ground Rents’ Llandough covenant of 5 March 1962 and BP’s covenant of 23 May 1975, side by side
RECORD COMPARISON — FROM REGISTER ENTRIES AND A RECITED CONVEYANCE
23 May 1975: conveyance of the farmhouse plot and other land, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties; the rest kept as "Retained Land"
REGISTER ENTRY — DEED NOT HELD
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))
LAW — ENACTED TEXT, APPLIED TO RECORDS ON FILE
Crichel Down rules and military land: what applies at Llandough, and three unread files (TNA MAF 11/1022, HLG 23/17384, MH 96/291)
LEADS — FILES NOT YET SEEN
Financial Times full text, June 1983 – September 1986 (885 issues): no item on Llandough, Great House Farm, Tŷ Mawr, BP Properties / BP Pension Trust, Western Ground Rents or the case
SEARCH RECORD — NOTHING FOUND
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
PUBLISHED RECORD — NEWSPAPER TEXT (SEARCH-RESULT TEXT, PAGE IMAGES NOT SEEN)
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
PUBLISHED RECORD AND CATALOGUE ENTRIES — DEED NOT READ
"Cydfin Wood, Leckwith, the property of Lord Bute": Penarth police court reports, Evening Express 7 and 14 January 1903
PUBLISHED RECORD — NEWSPAPER TEXT
Cardiff Corporation at Cedwyn, 1905–1989: one corporate body for the 1905 and 1961 rights; dealings with Western Ground Rents 1938–47; no Cardiff role found in the 1989 planning file
RECORD SYNTHESIS — FROM REGISTER ENTRIES, PRESS AND PLANNING RECORDS
Authenticity audit of both title lines: which instrument has been seen, which is known only from a recital, press or catalogue (analysis, 25 Oct 2026)
RESEARCH ARTIFACT — ANALYSIS OF CATALOGUED RECORDS
Machine-readable: layer.json (also stored in the catalogue database as the “title-chain” layer).