EV-0259 — Western Mail, 18 March and 28 October 1955: Cardiff held a 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942” and leased 106 acres to the Forestry Commission for 999 years; measured against today’s boundaries, Leckwith Woods lies wholly outside Llandough
| EV ID | EV-0259 |
|---|---|
| Title | Western Mail, 18 March and 28 October 1955: Cardiff held a 176-acre Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942” and leased 106 acres to the Forestry Commission for 999 years; measured against today’s boundaries, Leckwith Woods lies wholly outside Llandough |
| Date of document | 18 March 1955; 28 October 1955 |
| Type | newspaper reports (snippets) and boundary measurement |
| Evidence label | SNIPPETS + MEASUREMENT (computed) |
| Repository / reference | Western Mail 18 Mar 1955 p.5; 28 Oct 1955 pp.25, 32 (British Newspaper Archive); ONS Parishes May 2024 boundaries; OpenStreetMap relation 19390228; HMLR INSPIRE polygons (Vale) |
| Status | SOURCE PENDING (snippets only); measurement HELD |
| Provenance | British Newspaper Archive snippets and open boundary data, 18 Oct 2026 (Leckwith Woods pass). |
| Related evidence | EV-0220 (Leckwith Woods gift, 1940–42) · EV-0217 |
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Quotation (verbatim): Leckwith Woods “bought … for a nominal sum in 1942”; 106 acres leased to the Forestry Commission for 999 years; Leckwith Woods described as “outside the boundary”.
Fits with: The family’s memory of “the forest, 1955” coincides with the 1955 Forestry Commission lease of Cardiff’s Leckwith Woods (a hypothesis only). The woods near the farm are Coed Creigiaidd (16.4 ha in Llandough, 138 m from the farm polygon) and Reservoir Wood (9.7 ha in Llandough).
Cuts against: Measured: the 62.9 ha OSM Leckwith Woods lies wholly outside Llandough community (0.0 ha inside; 602 m from the boundary; 1,247 m from the farmstead polygon), so the 1940–42 gift land was almost certainly in Leckwith parish, not part of the farm. Caveat: modern community lines against 1940 parishes; deed plan unseen.
Notes: Our case, prospective, on any link between the woodland transfers and the farm.
Our case, prospective. Not a finding of any court. Catalogued by Tab (for Sion Buckler), 20 Oct 2026, from research of 16–20 Oct 2026 (free online sources only).
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