“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.”
Mrs. Buckler [stated] that the water was cut off from her house and grounds for nearly 10 years by order of Western Ground Rents.
[Herd loss] This, she added, resulted in loss of a complete herd of Friesian cattle.
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.
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This is a Welsh case of Crichel Down.
The Glamorgan County Council, Penarth Urban and Cardiff Rural Councils and Western Ground Rents have walked …