| Content Description | First Party: The personal representatives of the late Henry P.A.D. Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne.
Second Party: The London and Fort George Land Company Limited.
Third Party: The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.
Conveyance from (1) and (2) to (3) of 3784.454 acres of land situated in the parishes of Babworth, Carburton, Elkesley, Welbeck, and Worksop known as 'Clumber Park' [edged pink on attached plan]; includes covenants and rent charges set out in first part of 2nd schedule, and the Worksop Corporation Act 1933, and a conveyance dated 19 Feb. 1931.
Reservations to (1) and (2): (a) all mines and minerals below the depth of 300 feet and all compensation payable under the Coal Act 1938; (b) all machinery in the saw mills and estate worksops, etc; (c) the right to run water and soil across the land; (d) all fixtures and fittings to which the tenants are entitled; (e) all overhead and underground high tension electricity wiring provided by Worksop Corporation; (f) the terms of agreements with Lincoln Corporation dated 12 Feb. 1908, 4 Feb. 1909 and 1 Apr. 1940 for underground water rights for a term of 1000 years.
Also subject to agreements concerning the sale of standing timber listed in 3rd schedule.
Covenants by (3): (i) to indemnify (1) and (2) against and future claims by tenants, and any breach of covenant contained in a conveyance concerning tithes, etc; (ii) that (3) will keep Clumber Chapel in good repair.
Consideration: £75,000.
First Schedule: Description of property conveyed including number on 1899 and 1919/20 ordnance maps.
Second Schedule: Particulars of deeds and other documents affecting the property, and particulars of tithe redemption annuities and other annual payments affecting the property.
Third Schedule: Particulars of agreements for sale of timber.
Forth Schedule: Documents to which (3) has the right of production.
Recitals: (a) agreement dated 5 Apr. 1927 by which the duke agreed to sell to the London and Fort George Land Company certain freehold estates; (b) date of the will of the 7th Duke; (c) death of the 7th Duke and the proving of his will; (d) death of one of the executors; (e) agreement for the current conveyance; (f) fact that (2) has agreed to join in the current conveyance.
Accompanied by a plan showing the property in question, Clumber Park, edged in pink.
Note that the above conveyance is a modern photocopy.
The bundle also contains four original plans which show Clumber Park; the plans are duplicates of one another, and are drawn to a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile and dated Feb. 1936; each plan is marked with a compass showing north and each has different bounds or parcels coloured. It is not possible to ascertain what the various colourings relate to. |