Crown Lands Act, 1873

Newborough and St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch Parsonages.

Appropriation of house and land as parsonage house and garden for parish of Newborough.

1. Whereas a piece of land containing about four acres, situate in the parish of Newborough in the county of Northampton, and being part of lands to which Her Majesty is entitled in right of her Crown, has for some time past, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, been appropriated as the site of a parsonage house, and as a garden attached thereto, but doubts have been entertained whether such piece of land has been legally appropriated for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas a plan of the said piece of land has been signed by the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, one of the said Commissioners, and having been marked with the letter A, has been deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records Inrolments, and upon such plan the said piece of land is coloured yellow: Be it enacted, that the said piece of land coloured yellow on the said plan A, with the parsonage house and buildings standing thereon, shall be vested for an estate in fee simple in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, for the purposes of the Church Building Acts, as the site of and as a parsonage house and garden for the parish of Newborough in the county of Northampton.