“Bought … for a nominal sum in 1942”: 106 acres leased to the Forestry Commission
The Western Mail of 18 March and 28 October 1955 reports Cardiff holding a 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942”, 106 acres leased to the Forestry Commission for 999 years, and Leckwith Woods described as “outside the boundary”.
Source
Western Mail, 18 March 1955, p.5; 28 October 1955, pp.25, 32 (snippets); boundary measurement. Legal Wiki EV-0259.
Archive note: Measured against today’s boundaries, Leckwith Woods (62.9 ha) lies wholly outside Llandough community, 602 m from the village and 1.25 km from the farmstead. The woods near the farm are Coed Creigiaidd and Reservoir Wood. The family’s memory of “the forest, 1955” is set beside this as a hypothesis only.
A reconstruction: this entry is written for this archive from the record in “Source”; the place, body or person shown did not post it.
