The gift of Leckwith Woods is completed
“The Council acquired a part of Leckwith Woods comprising some 109 acres as a gift from Western Ground Rents Ltd, which had bought the urban estate of the Bute family in 1938. The gift was offered and accepted in 1940, though the transfer of ownership was not formally completed until April 1942. The deed included a covenant that the land be used as a playing field, park, recreation or pleasure ground only.”
Source
Cardiff Parks history: Leckwith Woods. Legal Wiki EV-0220.
Archive note: Secondary source: a Cardiff parks history page citing council committee minutes of 15 October 1940, 4 February 1941, 10 March 1942 and 15 April 1942. The minutes, the deed and its plan have not been seen.
A reconstruction: this entry is written for this archive from the record in “Source”; the place, body or person shown did not post it.
