Lease for 60 years, from 25 March 1897 for yearly rents of £5 per acre and £2 per...

A wayleave rent of £100 yearly and payment of ½d for every ton of coal exceeding 24,000 tons extracted from; James Darlington of Bourton Hall, Warws, esq to Francis Alexander Newdigate of No. 1 Tilney Street London, esq. M.P. of land in the Hawkesbury Estate (delineated on a map which forms the last membrane of this deed), with the right to construct a railway, with sidings to the juction of the line with the Coventry to Nuneaton Railway, to convey coal and ironstone from the colliery, and bricks from the brickworks of the lessee in Bedworth by the above railway, subject to a leave rent of £100. The land coloured pink on the map is to be rented for £5 per acre yearly, excepting the lot numbered 237 on the plan, re 9 Sept. 1897. Lease for 15 years between the parties to this deed for brickmaking. The land coloured neutral tint is to be rented for £2 per acre yearly, excepting land lying to the north of the pit rounds marked on the map. Leased 1 December 1897 from James Darlington to Benjamin Pollard and Blockley. Deeds recited. 3 September 1891. Marriage agreement conveying mining rights from Arthur Edward Whieldon, esq, and James Darlington, esq to B.H. Rendall of Southampton, Schoolmaster and R.A. Rotherham of Coventry, gent, trustees in respect of the marriage of Francis Maude Darlington daughter of James Darlington to Harold Watkins Cave, then to the survivor of the trustees, the profits and rents being sold to James Darlington for life: 10 March 1897. Agreement between James Darlington, Francis Alexander Newdigate and the parties to the above recited marriage settlement to the effect that since James Darlington was seized of the Hawkesbury Estate as tenant for life, he would be able to effect the lease in this deed according to the terms of the Settled Land Act 1882. The lessee is covenanted to pay three quarters of the rent to R.A. Rotherham and B.H. Rendall to be set aside as capital and a quarter of the rent to the lessor. The lessee is unabled to construct a tunnel for the passage of a railway under the Coventry to Nuneaton Road. The lessee is covenanted to fence and chain the land compensate tenants of demised land for land taken by the railway. The lessee is covenanted to fence the property except from prints A to B and E to F marked on the map to allow the lessor and his tenants (names and details of the land described on the map) access to the property divided by the railway. The lease is subsequent to the decision of F.A. Newdigate M.P. to sink mines in Astley, Warws. Endorsed 31 March 1904. Surrender of lease 25 September 1902, change of name of lessee from F.A. Newdigate to F.A. Newdigate-Newdegate.

Previous reference. Deeds Miscellaneous PA 171/18/78.