Mary (Nancy) Williams
· Public statement
To the Western Mail, 20 November 1958:
“This is a Welsh case of Crichel Down.”
1958
4 key events, newest first.
“It’s a Crichel Down …” woman farmer
Mrs. M D. Buckler was objecting to further industrial development in the vicinity of her farm, Ty Mawr, Penarth Road, Llandough. Land farmed by her family since 1667 had been “wrongfully appropriated.”
Source
Western Mail, Thursday 20 November 1958, p.7 (Glamorgan County Council planning committee, 19 November 1958). British Newspaper Archive search-result text. Legal Wiki EV-0037.
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.
City wants common for play-field
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.
Source
Western Mail, 7 May 1958, p.7 (Leckwith Common inquiry, 6 May 1958). British Newspaper Archive search-result text. Legal Wiki EV-0035; the order’s confirmation, London Gazette, 31 October 1958: EV-0287.