Grant and Release
1st July 1898 – Grant and Release of Manorial and other rights over wastes of Manors of Tadworth & Banstead Surrey and Grant of right to construct roads bridges etc
Banstead in Surrey is, I suppose, my hobby. Having spent the first 25 years of my life in this attractive village, and still living only 10 or so miles away, I revisit it from time to time and I collect all kinds of mementoes – old postcards, event programmes, leaflets and even old railway tickets from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s.
Here’s the front of my latest acquisition – a ‘Grant and Release’ Indenture document on parchment concerning the procurement of land for the extension of the local railway in 1898. What’s of particular interest to me is that the document bears the signature of Lord Russell of Killowen (1832-1900) – an Irish statesman, barrister and one-time MP who was also Lord Chief Justice of England and an advocate of Irish Home Rule. In addition, he was Lord of the Manor of Tadworth, part of the Urban District of Banstead.
It’s a curio, no more than that, but an interesting one – for example, it refers to ‘three hundred and seventy one acres two roods & eighteen perches or thereabouts’ and ‘the wastes’ of Tadworth and Banstead.
Grant and Release
1st July 1898 – Grant and Release of Manorial and other rights over wastes of Manors of Tadworth & Banstead Surrey and Grant of right to construct roads bridges etc
Banstead in Surrey is, I suppose, my hobby. Having spent the first 25 years of my life in this attractive village, and still living only 10 or so miles away, I revisit it from time to time and I collect all kinds of mementoes – old postcards, event programmes, leaflets and even old railway tickets from the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s.
Here’s the front of my latest acquisition – a ‘Grant and Release’ Indenture document on parchment concerning the procurement of land for the extension of the local railway in 1898. What’s of particular interest to me is that the document bears the signature of Lord Russell of Killowen (1832-1900) – an Irish statesman, barrister and one-time MP who was also Lord Chief Justice of England and an advocate of Irish Home Rule. In addition, he was Lord of the Manor of Tadworth, part of the Urban District of Banstead.
It’s a curio, no more than that, but an interesting one – for example, it refers to ‘three hundred and seventy one acres two roods & eighteen perches or thereabouts’ and ‘the wastes’ of Tadworth and Banstead.