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'''[[1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough]]'''  
 
'''[[1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough]]'''  
  
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[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/John_Grubb John Grubb] Esq, the Lord of the [[Manor of Princes Risborough]], purchased from the enclosure commissioners numbers 636, 637, 638 and 639.   This land had all been part of the Common of Princes Risborough, the whole area being known as “Hillocks”
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'''John Cheshire''' was born in 1808 at Edelsborough
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'''Ann  ?''' was born in 1803 in Eaton Bray
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'''1848 WINDMILL FARM and WINDMILL Sold at auction.'''  '''Lot 10.'''  A capital Smock Tower Windmill, millers house, and 8 acres 0 roods 35 poles of adjoining land occupied by Mr John Steel, on a lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838.  Purchased by '''John Cheshire.''' 
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 '''John and Ann had 3 daughters and 2 sons as follows''' :-
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'''Mary Ann Cheshire born 1835'''.  Married 1872 John Buckmaster born 1801.  He died in 1874. (He was 39 years older than her)    ('''Research Note'''.  ''Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a mortgage, and took him to court to get payment.)''
  
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'''Land for the Church.'''   John Grubb gave part of no. 636 to the new Lacey Green Chapel, later St.John’s Church, as [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Glebe_land Glebe land], the rent going to the chapel.
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'''George Cheshire 1836-1923'''.   Married Sarah Steele, the former miller’s daughter in 1865.   See [[George Cheshire & Sarah nee Steele]] for their life story.
  
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'''The Remaining Land''' stretched from “[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill_Road Windmill Road]”, later called "[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Pink_Road Pink Road]" on the northwest to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Kiln_Farm Kiln Farm] on the southeast.   The only properties on it were the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill Windmill] on [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill_Farm_&_Windmill Windmill Farm], and the Kiln and Kiln Farm on the southeast.
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'''Hannah Cheshire born at Eaton Bray 1838 m'''arried Henry Cowell, a journeyman miller from Odeham, Hants in 1860.
  
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'''Bankruptcies.'''   John Grubb went bankrupt in 1841, then his successor in 1848. The huge area of land was then put up for auction as one lot, which included Windmill Farm and windmill
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'''Sarah Cheshire born 1840''' married John Floyd, widower in 1865.   See [[John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire]] for their life story
  
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'''John Cheshire,''' tenant of Windmill Farm, miller, wishing to own his rented property, purchased this lot.   
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'''Thomas Cheshire born 1847.  ''' Married Sarah Ada Tilley in 1885.  1 child Thomas born 1887,died 1887.   In 1884 Thomas purchased [[Court Cottage]], [[Church Lane]], Lacey Green.  Thomas was a farmer and corn dealer at [[Windmill Farm]].  Thomas Cheshire died in 1888 aged 41 leaving £99–4s.  '''In 1889''' his widow Sarah Ada Cheshire sold [[Court Cottage]] to Peter Tyler Floyd.  See [[Peter and Ann Floyd]]
  
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'''John Cheshire's mortgages.'''
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'''John Cheshire born died ?'''
  
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John Cheshire struggled to cope with the size of his mortgages.  By 1861, after several mortgages with various people the sole mortgagee was Frances [[Josephine Irving]] of West Worthing, Sussex.
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'''Ann Cheshire born 1803, died1898 aged 95.'''
  
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'''1977.  FRANCES JOSEPHINE IRVING SELLS PART OF JOHN CHESHIRE'S MORTGAGE TO MARY ANN BUCKMASTER'''
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'''John Cheshire's Mortgages'''
  
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'''DEBT & ACCRUING INTEREST'''
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[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/John_Grubb John Grubb] Esq, the Lord of the [[Manor of Princes Risborough]], purchased from the enclosure commissioners numbers 636, 637, 638 and 639.   This land had all been part of the Common of Princes Risborough, the whole area being known as “Hillocks”
  
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As £1,300 plus accruing interest was now owing by John Cheshire, the said F.J.Irving was enabled to sell several plots of land.
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'''Land for the Church.'''  John Grubb gave part of no. 636 to the new Lacey Green Chapel, later St. John’s Church, as [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Glebe_land Glebe land], the rent going to the chapel.
  
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'''1889.  F.J. IRVING (mortgagee of John Cheshire) SOLD 3 adjoining plots of land, all 120 feet 6 inches to the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Main_Road Main Road], 361 feet in depth, containing 1 acre.'''
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'''The Remaining Land''' stretched from “[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill_Road Windmill Road]”, later called "[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Pink_Road Pink Road]" on the northwest to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Kiln_Farm Kiln Farm] on the southeast.   The only properties on it were the [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill Windmill] on [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Windmill_Farm_&_Windmill Windmill Farm], and the Kiln and [[Kiln Farm]] on the southeast.
  
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'''TO [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/THOMAS_EDWARD_STONE THOMAS EDWARD STONE]''', to the north of [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/George_Hawes George Hawes].   Which remained bare land
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'''Bankruptcies.'''   John Grubb went bankrupt in 1841, then his successor in 1848.  The huge area of land was then put up for auction as one lot, which included :-
  
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'''TO [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/GEORGE_HAWES GEORGE HAWES] for £46,''' to the north of [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/John_Saunders John Saunders].   Which became [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Woodbyne_Farm Woodbyne Farm]
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"Lot 10. a capital Smock Tower Windmill, Millers House and 8 acres, 0 roods, 35 poles of adjoining land held by  Mr John Steel on lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838. Windmill Farm and windmill
  
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'''TO JOHN SAUNDERS, to the south of George Hawes.  ''' Which became [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Jubilee_Cottages Jubilee Cottages] and [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Rose_Villa Rose Villa]
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'''John Cheshire,''' tenant of Windmill Farm, miller, wishing to own his rented property, purchased the above lot.
  
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'''SOLD TO [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/WILLIAM_SAUNDERS WILLIAM SAUNDERS],''' of New House Farm, Denner Hill, great Missenden, for £730: -
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'''John Cheshire's mortgages.'''
  
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'''SCHEDULE'''
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John Cheshire struggled to cope with the size of his mortgages.  By 1861, after several mortgages with various people the sole mortgagee was Frances [[Josephine Irving]] of West Worthing, Sussex
  
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The [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Field field] of arable land at Lacey Green, containing 7 acres, 19 poles.  Bounded on the E by Glebe land, the property belonging to Reverend [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/William_Kelly William Kelly] vicar of Lacey Green; on the S by a proposed new roadway (later to become [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Goodacres_Lane Goodacres Lane]); on the W by property of John Cheshire, mortgaged to Frances Josephine Irving: On the South by property of John Cheshire, but recently remortgaged to Mary Ann Buckmaster
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'''1877.   Frances Josephine Irving sold part of John Cheshire's mortgage to Mary Ann Buckmaster, (John Cheshire's married daughter.)'''
  
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1.    Piece of ground thereby conveyed recently formed part of close of arable land known as “[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Road_Ground Road Ground]”, containing 15 acres 1 rood 23 poles
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Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a £600 mortgage with interest.   (''She later took him to court when he did not pay'').
  
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2.    The arable land at Lacey Green known as the “[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Hillocks Hillocks]”, formerly part of Kiln Farm, then containing 30 acres 2 roods 14 poles, but a small portion having been sold, it was found to contain 29 acres 1 rood 37 poles, bounded on the East by property belonging to [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Merton_College Merton College] (part of [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Widmer_Farm Widmer Farm])
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'''12th September 1884  Mortgage''' between John Cheshire, miller and Charles Hodsden of West Wycombe, chairmaker.    Charles Hodsden conveyed to John Cheshire £200 with interest thereon of 5% per annum, to be paid in half yearly payments on the 12th day of March and the 12th day of September.
  
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On the South partly by property of Mrs Janes and partly by the small portion recently sold as before mentioned; on the S by property of [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Henry_Janes Henry Janes] (site of the Bakehouse) and on the north by the said Wm. Frederick Kelly
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John Cheshire, as beneficial owner, conveys to Charles Hodsden :-
  
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Which herein 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> described, together with full right and liberty for William Saunders, in along and over the proposed new roadway, 16 feet in width and abstracting presents recently set out by Francis Josephine Irving, leading to the heredits hereby conveyed.
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'''Firstly.'''  All that piece of ground situate in the Parish of Princes Risborough, as staked out, late in the occupation of Cornelius Williams, containing 67 perches, being part of woodland called Darvills Hill Wood, bounded on the NW by Davills Hill Wood,  and on the SE by the public road leading from Darvills Hill to Speen, now or late in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown.  And also all that messuage, now converted into and used as 3 cottages since built on the said piece of ground, now in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown.  ('''Researchers note'''.  ''This property was given to Sarah Floyd.   click [[John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire]] for detail in her Will)''
  
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John Cheshire born 1808, miller at Lacey Green, married to Ann.   They had 3 daughters and 2 sons
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'''Secondly.'''  All that piece of land situate at Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough, containing 2 roods, bounded on one side by land belonging to Thomas Stone, on another side by land belonging to Free Gomme and one another side by the Lacey Green Road and on the remaining side by land belonging to Richard Gomme, the father of the said Free Gomme, together with the two cottages erected and built thereon and now in the respective tenure of Benjamin Harvey and Leonard Biggs.  To hold the same unto Charles Hodsden in fee simple, provided always that the same £200 with interest thereon shall be paid in accordance with the foregoing covenant.   ''(The document of mortgage of 12th September and reconveyance of 12th September 1887 are archived in Lacey Green Village Hall)''
  
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'''Mary Ann, born 1835'''.  Married 1872 John Buckmaster born 1801.  He died in 1874. (He was 39 years older than her)    Later Mary Ann gave her father a mortgage, and took him to court to get payment.
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'''12 September 1887  Reconveyance'''   The mortgage of 12th September 1884 John Cheshire and Charles Hodsden was repaid with Interest and cleared
  
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'''George 1836-1923'''.   Married 1865 at Lacey Green, Sarah Steele, the former miller’s daughter.   George worked with his father as miller.   Also after his marriage he is listed at the baptisms of his children as a publican in 1866 to 1882.   This public house was called “The Whip” and may have been built about 1860.    The family may have lived there rather than in Windmill Farmhouse.    In 1901 George is living in the farmhouse.
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'''28th October 1887.  Indenture of Gift'''.   This Indenture witnesseth that John Cheshire, miller, of Lacey Green, in consideration of the natural love and affection he has and bears towards his daughter, Sarah Floyd, wife of John Floyd, and for divers other good causes and considerations moved him, as beneficial owner hereby conveys to Sarah Floyd, free of all encumbrances  :-
  
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'''Hannah born 1838.'''   Married 1860 Henry Cowell, a journeyman miller from Odeham, Hants.
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'''Firstly'''.   The ground and 3 cottages described in the Document dated 12th September 1884.    (''20th January 1909, these properties sold to W J Hatt and F J Hatt'')
  
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'''Sarah born 1840.'''   Married 1865 John Floyd, widower, born 1820., ex-tenant of Lane Farm.   1871 census, John and Sarah at the Whip, John is farming the land of 48 acres, with 2 men and 1 boy.   In 1881 John is farming with 1 boy.   In 1891 John and Sarah are living at the Whip with Sarah’s mother Ann, widow.  George is the next house, presumably the farmhouse.   In 1901 Sarah, widow is listed as a publican and farmer.
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'''Secondly'''   The Land and 2 cottages also described in the Document dated 12th September 1884.   See John Cheshire & Sarah nee Floyd for their life story.
  
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'''Thomas born 1847.  ''' Married 1885 Sarah Ann Tilley. 1 child died when baby.  Thomas died 1888, aged 41.  Thomas was a farmer and corn dealer.  He left £99 – 4s.
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'''1889  As £1,300 plus accruing interest was''' now owing by John Cheshire to F.J. Irving she was enabled to sell several plots of the land to Thomas Edward Stone, George Hawes, See [[Woodbyne Farm]], John Saunders and William Saunders

Latest revision as of 13:53, 13 February 2025

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1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough

John Cheshire was born in 1808 at Edelsborough

Ann ? was born in 1803 in Eaton Bray

1848 WINDMILL FARM and WINDMILL Sold at auction. Lot 10.  A capital Smock Tower Windmill, millers house, and 8 acres 0 roods 35 poles of adjoining land occupied by Mr John Steel, on a lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838. Purchased by John Cheshire.

 John and Ann had 3 daughters and 2 sons as follows :-

Mary Ann Cheshire born 1835.  Married 1872 John Buckmaster born 1801.  He died in 1874. (He was 39 years older than her)    (Research Note. Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a mortgage, and took him to court to get payment.)

George Cheshire 1836-1923.   Married Sarah Steele, the former miller’s daughter in 1865. See George Cheshire & Sarah nee Steele for their life story.

Hannah Cheshire born at Eaton Bray 1838 married Henry Cowell, a journeyman miller from Odeham, Hants in 1860.

Sarah Cheshire born 1840 married John Floyd, widower in 1865. See John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire for their life story

Thomas Cheshire born 1847.   Married Sarah Ada Tilley in 1885. 1 child Thomas born 1887,died 1887.   In 1884 Thomas purchased Court Cottage, Church Lane, Lacey Green. Thomas was a farmer and corn dealer at Windmill Farm. Thomas Cheshire died in 1888 aged 41 leaving £99–4s. In 1889 his widow Sarah Ada Cheshire sold Court Cottage to Peter Tyler Floyd. See Peter and Ann Floyd

John Cheshire born died ?

Ann Cheshire born 1803, died1898 aged 95.

John Cheshire's Mortgages

John Grubb Esq, the Lord of the Manor of Princes Risborough, purchased from the enclosure commissioners numbers 636, 637, 638 and 639.   This land had all been part of the Common of Princes Risborough, the whole area being known as “Hillocks”

Land for the Church. John Grubb gave part of no. 636 to the new Lacey Green Chapel, later St. John’s Church, as Glebe land, the rent going to the chapel.

The Remaining Land stretched from “Windmill Road”, later called "Pink Road" on the northwest to Kiln Farm on the southeast.   The only properties on it were the Windmill on Windmill Farm, and the Kiln and Kiln Farm on the southeast.

Bankruptcies. John Grubb went bankrupt in 1841, then his successor in 1848. The huge area of land was then put up for auction as one lot, which included :-

"Lot 10. a capital Smock Tower Windmill, Millers House and 8 acres, 0 roods, 35 poles of adjoining land held by Mr John Steel on lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838. Windmill Farm and windmill

John Cheshire, tenant of Windmill Farm, miller, wishing to own his rented property, purchased the above lot.

John Cheshire's mortgages.

John Cheshire struggled to cope with the size of his mortgages. By 1861, after several mortgages with various people the sole mortgagee was Frances Josephine Irving of West Worthing, Sussex

1877. Frances Josephine Irving sold part of John Cheshire's mortgage to Mary Ann Buckmaster, (John Cheshire's married daughter.)

Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a £600 mortgage with interest. (She later took him to court when he did not pay).

12th September 1884 Mortgage between John Cheshire, miller and Charles Hodsden of West Wycombe, chairmaker. Charles Hodsden conveyed to John Cheshire £200 with interest thereon of 5% per annum, to be paid in half yearly payments on the 12th day of March and the 12th day of September.

John Cheshire, as beneficial owner, conveys to Charles Hodsden :-

Firstly. All that piece of ground situate in the Parish of Princes Risborough, as staked out, late in the occupation of Cornelius Williams, containing 67 perches, being part of woodland called Darvills Hill Wood, bounded on the NW by Davills Hill Wood, and on the SE by the public road leading from Darvills Hill to Speen, now or late in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown. And also all that messuage, now converted into and used as 3 cottages since built on the said piece of ground, now in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown. (Researchers note. This property was given to Sarah Floyd. click John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire for detail in her Will)

Secondly. All that piece of land situate at Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough, containing 2 roods, bounded on one side by land belonging to Thomas Stone, on another side by land belonging to Free Gomme and one another side by the Lacey Green Road and on the remaining side by land belonging to Richard Gomme, the father of the said Free Gomme, together with the two cottages erected and built thereon and now in the respective tenure of Benjamin Harvey and Leonard Biggs. To hold the same unto Charles Hodsden in fee simple, provided always that the same £200 with interest thereon shall be paid in accordance with the foregoing covenant. (The document of mortgage of 12th September and reconveyance of 12th September 1887 are archived in Lacey Green Village Hall)

12 September 1887 Reconveyance The mortgage of 12th September 1884 John Cheshire and Charles Hodsden was repaid with Interest and cleared

28th October 1887. Indenture of Gift. This Indenture witnesseth that John Cheshire, miller, of Lacey Green, in consideration of the natural love and affection he has and bears towards his daughter, Sarah Floyd, wife of John Floyd, and for divers other good causes and considerations moved him, as beneficial owner hereby conveys to Sarah Floyd, free of all encumbrances :-

Firstly. The ground and 3 cottages described in the Document dated 12th September 1884. (20th January 1909, these properties sold to W J Hatt and F J Hatt)

Secondly The Land and 2 cottages also described in the Document dated 12th September 1884. See John Cheshire & Sarah nee Floyd for their life story.

1889 As £1,300 plus accruing interest was now owing by John Cheshire to F.J. Irving she was enabled to sell several plots of the land to Thomas Edward Stone, George Hawes, See Woodbyne Farm, John Saunders and William Saunders

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