Fields & Railway

Simply put the fields called Spring Close and Eight Acres belonged to Sir Lester Holte who bequeathed them to Wriothesley Digby in about 1769. WD then sold them to the Hartopps in 1827[?] and by the time of the survey for the railway in around 1870 the land is under the ownership of The Warden & Society due I assume to the land exchange in document number 6.

Park Leasow higher up was in Samuel Smith's ownership in around 1827, and by the 1870 railway survey was of the Trustees of Hurry and Morris[?].

By the way the Railway Company paid an apparently very generous £6,500 for the 2-mile long strip of land across Sutton Park and the cost of the construction of the 8-mile line rose from an estimate of £175,000 to over £400,000. The line's contractor was Joseph Firbank.