ECR 50 064
Reference code
ECR 50 064
Title
Middleton Brimfield and Elcomb, Wiltshire: Letter concerning land
Level
Item
Date
4 April 1848
Extent & medium
2 folios
Content description
J B O Bayly, to Thomas Batcheldor, esquire. Has talked with Mr Goodman who assures him that some of the land taken by the railway was Bayly's freehold. "... then after a pause as I imagined for the purpose of collecting his scattered ideas he made the following discrete remark 'don't you be humbuged by the college,'...Now it really appears to me that the Railway Company have taken a portion of land not marked out when Mr Trumper and yourself visited Middleton. Respecting the price per acre I cannot see why the land taken for the Railway at Middleton is not worth as much as that taken on either side of it belonging to Mr Temple, Mr Bennett, my brother and myself for which they have paid £300 per acre. .... Let me persuade you to come in May and try your hand at the trout as there are an immense quantity of very heavy fish. I have not much faith in minnow spinning but am certain you would have good sport with the May fly which comes on invariably about the 26th of May.
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