Transcript Historical Minute Book 1913 to 1923 - Ashdown Forest

Off road ditch each sideH.B. Portman, ChairmanIt is Resolved that the report be approved and acted upon.W. Arnold & Co. steam traction contractors, TrespassThe Committee also report that Messrs. W. Arnold & Co. of Branbridge, East Peckham, Kent, who are carrying outwork for Countess Norbury at Greenwood Gate, have a van placed on the Forest there in which 4 men sleep.Also that the same firm, who are carrying out road work for the County Council, have on several occasions lefttheir Steam Rollers and vans at night drawn up on the Forest adjoining the road.It is Resolved that the Clerk draw the attention of Messrs. Arnold to the breaches of the Bye Laws thus committed.Catt access to waterMr. C. Catt the tenant of Nutley Inn Farm which is entitled to rights, attends before the Board and states that hewaters his cattle at the stream on the Forest which is about six yards from the boundary of his holding and hedesires to erect a double row of hurdles across the intervening Forest land so that his cattle can go backwards andforwards between his holding and the stream when they want to drink.It is Resolved that the application be granted provided Mr. Catt signs an undertaking to remove the hurdleswhenever required by the Conservators and agrees to pay an acknowledgement of 1/- per annum while the hurdlesare allowed to remain.R.E. TrainingThe Clerk reports that he received an application from the Officer Commanding the Royal Engineer Companiesfrom Woolwich District, for permission to use part of the Forest in the neighbourhood of Crowborough on whichto carry out some training and stating that the number of men and horses would not be more than 200 and 50respectively, the duration of the training would be about three weeks commencing about 25th May next and thatpermission was desired to construct entrenchments and possibly to cut some brushwood.It is Resolved that subject to the consent of the Lord being obtained permission be granted on terms andconditions similar to those on which leave was granted to the R. Engineers to hold a camp and training on theForest in 1912 subject to the supervision of the Maresfield Committee, except that beyond cutting the undergrowthso far as may be necessary for forming the camp, permission be not granted to cut brushwood which the Boardconsider can be obtained from private property and also subject to a condition that the manure made by the horsesbe left on the Forest and spread over the damaged surface.Misses Barchard claim to rightsThe Clerk reports that the Misses Barchard have produced to him a Title Deed of the property in respect of whichthey claim rights of Common, from which it appears that, as far back as 1843 the property was held as Freeholdand was described as 0a.1r.32p of land with a cottage and buildings thereon situate in Maresfield abutting toCampfield Rough otherwise The Great Wood on the East and to the Forest on all other sides being the propertynos. 658 and 659 on the Ordnance Map XXVII – 4 Edition of 1910 and containing about 1a.0r.15p.The Board having examined Matthew Tester of Fairwarp aged 82 who attended personally before them and whoseevidence as to user extended back over 60 years.It is Resolved that the Misses Barchard claim be admitted and that they be entered in the Schedule of Commonersin respect of the said property namely Ada E. Barchard & Eleanor E. Barchard.R.A.F. Golf Club repair footpathIt is Resolved that permission be granted to the R.A.F. Golf Club to repair the footpath on & skirting the Forestfrom the south side of Mr. Barron's property towards Broadstone Farm.15Ashdown Forest Historical Minute Book