1958 Assent

The document is typed and written on a single folded sheet of parchment 532 x 405mm, dated 24th January 1958.

In the Estate of the late Christian Wilfrid James ASSENT in favour of Mr Tom James relating to Rudchester (near Wylam) in the county of Northumberland. Christian Wilfrid James's executors, John Richard Nangreve Bell (his solicitor) and Tom James (his son). assent to the vesting of Rudchester "containing an area of 279.870 acres or therabouts together with the farm, buildings and rpremises appertaining thereto known as Rudchester" to Tom James. It was signed by John Richard Nangreve Bell> and Tom James, and witnessed by John Tait, Clerk with Davies, Bell & Co, solicitors.

There are 5 memoranda:

4th April 1967
Conveyance of 2 pieces of land being parts of fields Nos O.S. 3331 and O.S. 2100 (we do not have any details of these maps), measuring in total 5.44 acres, from Tom James to Peter Goeffrey Hodgkinson and Flossie Liliac Hodgkinson.

6th May 1971
Conveyance of a piece of land containing 2 acres or thereabouts together with a cottage and outbuildings erected thereon known as Blakeley Cottage (this appears to be called Blakeley Hill Cottages), from Tom James to William Angus Kennedy.

1st June 1976
Conveyance of certain lands forming part of the Rducester Estate required for Heddon bypass, from Tom James to the Secretary of State for the Environment.

16th March 1979
Conveyance of 3 pieces of land "shown coloured round in red on the plan ennexed hereto" (there is no plan attached), from Tom James to John Campbell Stobo and June Stobo.

15th October 1984
Conveyance of a piece of land at Houghton Moor, from Tom James to Edwin Bell.