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Knight of Barrells

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By direction of the Beneficiaries of the estate of the late Rev. H.C. Knight. Henley-in-Arden. Particulars and plans of freehold properties comprising valuable accommodation land adjoining Henley-in-Arden railway station, in 4 lots; Foster's farm with frontage of about 980 yards to the Ullenhall road, area 120a. 2r. 16p.; and Mockley wood, Ullenhall, containing a large number of well-grown oaks, area 61a. 2r. 20p. ... To be sold by auction by Edwards, Son Bigwood Mathews, at the Grand Hotel, Colmore Row, Birmingham, on Tuesday, September 27th 1938, at 4 p.m. precisely. Lot descriptions include the following: Lot 1. Freehold accommodation land (10a. 3r. 16p.) with access from High Street, Henley-in-Arden, by a roadway between Nos. 114 and 116. 2. Freehold pasture land (28a. 1r. 32p.) 3. Freehold pasture accommodation land (4a. 2r. 14p) adjoining Henley-in-Arden railway station. Subject to a right-of-way to adjoining properties and wayleave for overhead electric line and underground cable. 4. Freehold field of allotment land (13a. 3r. 6p.) part being let to the Henley-in-Arden Allotment Gardens Association. 5. Capital freehold dairy holding known as Foster's farm with a comfortable house built in 1868 and suitable farm buildings (120a. 2r. 16p.). Electricity available from overhead mains, for which an acknowledgement of £2.16s.6d. per annum is received from the Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Power Co. Lot 6. Freehold timber property comprising Mockley wood, Ullenhall (61a. 2r. 20p.). The wood contains upwards of 400 oak trees of 13 in. to 26 in. quarter girth and over 2,000 smaller oak trees, the estimated content of which is approximately 28,000 cubic feet. Sporting rights let to the North Warwickshire Hunt on an annual tenancy. Cover-title, 6 p., folding plan 14 x 8 1/2 ins.