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Document Number:				0504096
Title:	Lease
Date:		13 October 1863
For Sale:			£53.00
Condition:
Good. The ink has faded a little in places but all is completely legible.
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 60cm x 74cm with wax seal, revenue stamp and plan of property on the reverse.
Summary of contents:
PARTIES Charles Towneley of Towneley near Burnely, Lancashire, Esquire Howarth Waddington of Padiham, Lancashire, Gamekeeper SUBJECT Charles Towneley gives a lease for 2000 years to Howarth Waddington on land in the parish of Hapton, Lancashire. The rent is £3/3/0d p.a. which is described as "the best and most improved rent that can be reasonably obtained". Howarth Waddington undertakes to erect a stone wall around the property and to build "substantial houses" which may be let for at least £7 p.a. The plot was formerly part of Moor End Fields with a tenement called Fenny Fold. It is bounded to the East by the Old Highway Road from Padiham to Burnley and contains 381 sq. yds.
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