Body · owner of Leckwith Woods from 1942 · 2 entries · 3 shared
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In the record: the conveyance of 23 February 1905 from the Marquess of Bute (land on the Leckwith side, title WA735527); the gift of about 109 acres of Leckwith Woods from Western Ground Rents, offered 1940 and completed April 1942, with a covenant that the land be used as a playing field, park, recreation or pleasure ground only; a 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942” and 106 acres leased to the Forestry Commission for 999 years (1955); and the City of Cardiff (Leckwith Common) Compulsory Purchase Order 1957, confirmed 8 September 1958.
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“The Council acquired a part of Leckwith Woods comprising some 109 acres as a gift from Western Ground Rents Ltd, which had bought the urban estate of the Bute family in 1938. The gift was offered and accepted in 1940, though the transfer of ownership was not formally completed until April 1942. The deed included a covenant that the land be used as a playing field, park, recreation or pleasure ground only.”
Source
Cardiff Parks history: Leckwith Woods. Legal Wiki EV-0220.
Archive note: Secondary source: a Cardiff parks history page citing council committee minutes of 15 October 1940, 4 February 1941, 10 March 1942 and 15 April 1942. The minutes, the deed and its plan have not been seen.
A reconstruction: this entry is written for this archive from the record in “Source”; the place, body or person shown did not post it.
The City of Cardiff (Leckwith Common) Compulsory Purchase Order, 1957, confirmed
London Gazette, 31 October 1958, p.6652: notice of the Minister’s intention to lay before Parliament “the City of Cardiff (Leckwith Common) Compulsory Purchase Order, 1957, confirmed by him on the 8th September 1958, under section 5 of the Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937”.
Source
London Gazette, issue 41537, 31 October 1958, p.6652 (read in full). Legal Wiki EV-0287.
