Place · outside Llandough, 1.25 km from the farm · 1 entry · 3 shared
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LWLeckwith Woods
About 109 acres of wooded land at Leckwith, given by Western Ground Rents to Cardiff Corporation.
offered 1940 · completed April 1942 · leased 1955 · Leckwith Common order 1957–58
Now: Measured against today’s boundaries, Leckwith Woods (62.9 ha) lies wholly outside Llandough community, 1.25 km from the farmstead.
A virtual plaque. There is none on the ground. Sources: each entry below.
A different wood from the one north of the farmhouse. Cardiff “acquired a part of Leckwith Woods comprising some 109 acres as a gift from Western Ground Rents Ltd … offered and accepted in 1940, though the transfer of ownership was not formally completed until April 1942”, with a covenant for playing field, park, recreation or pleasure ground only. By 1955 Cardiff held 176 acres and leased 106 to the Forestry Commission for 999 years. Whether the 1942 gift bears on Parcel A is a working theory.
A profile written for this archive from the records named under each entry’s “Source”; this place, body or person did not post here.
“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.
