The Bute Estate

The Bute interest at Llandough passes to Western Ground Rents Ltd

The deed’s plan, which would show exactly what land went, has not been found.

Remaining Bute property incorporated as Mountjoy Ltd.

Archive catalogue history: after 1900 the Glamorgan estate was divided; the remaining Bute property became Mountjoy Ltd in 1926.

Conveyance to Cardiff City Corporation

Conveyance, John Marquis of Bute to Cardiff City Corporation, 23 February 1905, as recorded on HM Land Registry title WA735527 (land lying on the Leckwith side).

“Cwm Cydfin Wood (Leckwith and Llandough)” in the Bute coppice-woods sale

Catalogue entry for the Bute coppice-woods auction including “Cwm Cydfin Wood (Leckwith and Llandough)”. Whether the soil or only the timber and coppice rights were sold, to whom and on what terms, is not in the catalogue.

Daniel Thomas of Penylan dies

Daniel Thomas of Penylan, a contractor under Lord Bute and the owner of “valuable lime kilns at Llandough”, dies; his obituary appears in Tarian y Gweithiwr. In April 1888 a local man is described as “a labourer at Llandough Quarry”: the works beside the farm carry on.

Known from a later family statement (c.1974): Bute sold the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres (Parcel A) and kept about 9 acres (Parcel B).

Agreement with the Marquess of Bute over land at Great House Farm

Agreement, Marquess of Bute to Daniel Thomas & Son, 1877. The Bute deeds at the National Library of Wales describe “land (33 a.), formerly part of Great House Farm, for the Llandough Limeworks (33 a.), 1876-1912”.

“Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”, 139a 3r 8p

David Stewart’s survey of the Bute estates in Glamorgan maps the farm on plan 19 as “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm”, 139 acres 3 roods 8 perches.

The Bute Estate acquires the freehold of the Great House in the early 19th century; the manorial courts for Llandough and Leckwith are then held in the house. The conveyance, and who sold, are not located.

Heneb HER GGAT02038s.

Purchase of the lordship by the Earl of Bute (Cardiff Records: Llandough’s later history follows Cogan, bought by the Earl in 1793).

The Bute manor presentments for Llandough begin in 1793 (NLW catalogue, not yet seen).