Bletchley Inclosures Act & Award - anyone live under these?

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Why not ask your local solicitor for more than a summary and how this applies to you?

theartfullodger

dc197 wrote: »

Bletchley Inclosures Act .....

Nice try: It was actually the "Bletchley Inclosure Act" - no "s".
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/6f91878e-577a-46fe-bf56-0909a9dfd107
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G_M wrote: »

Unfortunately like most documents relating to Bletchley, the reason digital (and paper) copies are unavailable is because disclosing thm contravenes the Official Secrets Act 1911.

And also the Official Secrets Acts of 1920, 1939 & 1989 see..
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga?title=official%20secrets

but to go back to your question,

Do your deeds talk of the Bletchley Inclosures (sic) Act 1810 and of Bletchley Inclosures Awards from 1810 onwards?........ If so, what is your understanding of your rights of obligations under these instruments, if your house is subject to them?...

Well, that would depend on the deeds and covenants wouldn't they?

Can you kindly help us by quoting an example of a deed or covenant that refers to said Act, please, preferably from your own property as an exemplar?

re. tithing don't all decent people give 10% or whatever of income to suitable charities?? Nothing to do with the church, just common decency: How much do you put on your tax return dc197??

Cheers!

btw re. cultivation, Rabbits & Hens will be permitted (S12 Allotments Act 1950
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/31/crossheading/abolition-of-contractual-restrictions-on-keeping-hens-and-rabbits

PS This exchange

I can think of at least 4 acts of Parliament that will modify your enclosure act, and that is just off the top of my head (which is full of geeky stuff like that)..

you replied..

Could you download your geek file to share details of those four Parliamentary Acts please?

is one of the funniest I've seen on MSE for ages.. Very funny, very droll!!

You must be a spy or similar as nobody is supposed to know about GCHQ's hush-hush pilot project downloading files from people's brains..., you know, the one they tried on IDS & found nothing..... oopppsss! What have I said!! remove all mention of GCHQ!!!

dc197

Thanks for the the input so far.
Here's from the deeds:

Matters to which the land is sold subject
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To the provisions of a Act for enclosing and exonerating from tithes lands in the parish of Bletchley (ref numb...) and f the Bletchley Inclosure Award dated 21/6/1813 and to any liability to maintain fences or cleanse drains under such Award or otherwise.


My solicitor explained it like this, which I include here to help anyone arriving at this page having googled the act.

The Bletchley Inclosure Act 1810 is a local Act that simplified land ownership in the Bletchley area. It provided that agricultural land would pass into the ownership of those landowners who could prove legal ownership. Equally, it dispossessed those who could not. Some rights of way were preserved and others extinguished. The Bletchley Inclosure Award 1813 implemented the inclosure process. Commissioners, employed specifically for the purpose, drew up detailed plans and awarded land within the affected parish to those claimants with provable title. Where land, previously in fragmented ownership, once depended on access via many routes, following inclosure those routes were extinguished to the extent that they were no longer necessary. Some common agricultural rights (such as grazing rights) were preserved in respect of common land, however there is now no common land in the area. The Award is now 200 years old. The character of the area affected by it has been settled for over 40 years. Neither a copy of the Act nor the Award is available. The Land Registry has noted their existence simply because they are referred to in historic title documents relating to land of which the Property forms part. Any interest that still arises is now non-possessory, like a right of way. That said, it must also be capable of termination by abandonment, again just like a right of way. Certainly nothing in the Act or the Award will oblige you to make any payment.

bouicca21

Seems pretty clear that there is nothing to worry about.

bouicca21

If you are interested take a look at the VCH for Buckinghamshire, online here
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp274-283

You will see that the act in question related to the enclosure of common land; your solicitor says there is no copy of the act, which is not unusual. It would usually have been enrolled amongst the documents of the Bucks clerk of the peace, but presumably this no longer survives. So if you are worried about modern rights and obligations re common land, it's check the local register as already advised, because that is authoritative. The act exonerates I.e. Abolished tithe payments. The bit about cleansing drains applies to drainage ditches.