| Content Description | First Party: Personal Representatives of Henry P.A.D. Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne [deceased].
Second Party: London and Fort George Land Company Limited.
Third Party: The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Worksop [Worksop Corporation].
Conveyance from (1) and (2) to (3) of a piece of land measuring 1.093 acres on the southern side of Retford Road in the parish of Worksop [coloured red on attached plan].
Subject to a corn rent of 1 shilling and 8 pence payable to the Vicar of Worksop; also subject to a mining lease with the Wigan Coal and Iron Company Limited dated 30 Oct. 1896, and varied by release dated 10 Dec. 1906.
Reservations to (1) and (2): All compensation payable under the Coal Act 1938 and all mines and minerals below a depth of 300 feet from the surface; free passage of water, soil, gas and electricity; and the right to erect buildings on adjoining property belonging to (1) and (2).
Covanants by (3): To erect and maintain certain boundary fencing; and to use the property in question for the construction of a municipal housing estate only, and not for any other purpose or for the sale of intoxicating liquor.
Consideration: £860.
Schedule 1: List of rights of flowing of water and soil to which the property in question is subject, namely those contained in a conveyance with the Worksop and Retford Brewery Company Ltd dated 24 Dec. 1937, and those contained in a conveyance with (3) dated 24 Jun. 1944.
Schedule 2: List of documents which (3) has the right of production.
Recitals: (a) fact that the 7th Duke of Newcastle was seised of the property in question at the time of his death and fact that the 7th Duke had agreed to sell certain estates to (2) by indenture dated 5 Apr. 1927 but no conveyance was executed; (b) fact that the 7th Duke died 30 May 1928 having appointed (1) as executors of his will; (c) fact that one of the executors died on 8 Dec. 1939; (d) fact that (1) and (2) have agreed to sell the property in question to (3).
Includes a plan with the property in question coloured red; plan also shows Bridge House. |