Subject: Re: Research enquiry — Bute Estate records GB 0210 BUTE / D153 / D219: Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough-juxta-Penarth — D153/1-8 check requested From: Sion Buckler Direction: sent Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:14 UTC Institution: National Library of Wales Refs: none Archive id: gm-1a1273ceb33ceda8 ------------------------------------------------------------ Enquiries Service The National Library of Wales Follow-up to my research enquiry of 27 September 2026 (Bute Estate records GB 0210 BUTE / D153 / D219) Glamorgan Archives has told me (ref 2026/4274, 6 October 2026) that D153/1-8 are held by the Library and that I should ask you. This is a research enquiry, not a request for a reading-room booking. The property is Great House Farm / Ty Mawr, Llandough-juxta-Penarth (ST 168 733), adjoining St Dochdwy's churchyard. It is not Great House Farm, Llandough near Cowbridge. Please would you check the full sequence D153/1-8, including endorsements, dockets and any attached plans, for any document dated c.1875-1880 relating to that property. The catalogue titles may not name the parties. I am looking for any agreement, lease, counterpart, award, conveyance or plan involving: - Daniel Thomas / D. Thomas & Son; - Llandough Limeworks; - John Williams or Thomas Williams; - the Bute Estate or the Trustees of the Marquess of Bute; - quarrying, minerals, lime, sidings, compensation or reparation; - the dwelling adjoining the churchyard (I note your catalogue entry for D153/1-2, 1811). If such an item exists, please give the exact reference, date, document type, parties as written, property description and acreage, whether a plan is attached, and whether a copy can be supplied and at what cost. If nothing in D153/1-8 matches, please say so, and say which other Bute series (including D219) you would check next. I have not yet had a substantive reply to my enquiry of 27 September; I would be grateful for a date by which I can expect one. Regards, Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant) Royal Signals Cyber/Electronic Warfare Professional and Life Member On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 01:15 AM, Sion Buckler <[email redacted]> wrote: Enquiries Service The National Library of Wales I am researching the title history of Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough-juxta-Penarth, Glamorgan, adjoining St Dochdwy’s churchyard (approx. ST 167 733). Glamorgan Archives (Louise Hunt, ref. 2026/4097, 24 September 2026) has confirmed that the following references are yours, not theirs, and has directed me to you: 1. D153 — Deeds relating to premises in p. Llandough, co. Glam., comprising a dwelling house adjoining the churchyard, 1811 (D153/1–2), and land (D153 onwards, including items sometimes cited as D153/4–8). 2. D219 — Llandough manorial leases and agreements. 3. The main Bute Estate deposit, GB 0210 BUTE (deeds to 1937; Glamorgan / Cardiff rentals). I do not ask you to adjudicate title. I ask only whether the following instruments exist in your holdings, and for catalogue references, dates, parties, acreages, and whether a plan is attached. A. The 1877 division Does the Bute deposit contain a conveyance, agreement, or other instrument of about 1876–1877 by which the Marquess of Bute (or trustees) conveyed or contracted to convey the farmhouse, buildings and about 10 acres adjoining the churchyard at Llandough to Daniel Thomas (or Thomas and another), while retaining about 9 acres of agricultural land to the east? B. The 1916 agricultural tenancy Does the deposit contain a yearly agricultural tenancy, or counterpart, of 1916 from the Marquess of Bute to John Williams of Great House Farm, Llandough? If yes: - does the parcels clause describe the whole farm, or only the land Bute still owned after 1877? - is there a plan? - what acreage is stated? C. Rentals 1877–1936 for this farm Do Glamorgan / Cardiff / Llandough rentals in GB 0210 BUTE distinguish, after c.1877, between: - a house/buildings holding (Thomas / later Williams), and - a residual Bute field holding later passed to Western Ground Rents in 1938? D. Anything that would show the two holdings were treated as one unit again before 1938. Purpose. HM Land Registry first-registered titles WA231076 (30 November 1982) and WA240304 (23 February 1983; later amalgamated). The 1982/83 files treat the land as one farm. The family case is that Parcel A (house and about 10 acres) had already left Bute in 1877 and was not the land let in 1916, so the 1982 merged title cannot be the same unit as the 1916 tenancy. Your deeds and rentals are the estate-side evidence that can confirm or deny that. I live in Patagonia and cannot visit Aberystwyth in person in the short term. I would be grateful for: - catalogue references and a short description of any matching items; - whether copies can be supplied, and the cost; - if the 1916 tenancy is not in GB 0210 BUTE, any note of where Bute tenancy counterparts after 1910 were deposited. This is a new enquiry. It is not a repeat of FOI/2026/11. Glamorgan Archives hold the 1938–44 Western Ground Rents plan/rental book (D696) and have already answered on their own Bute material. Sion (Hywel) Buckler [email redacted] [phone redacted] Public chronology and parcel statement: https://greathousefarmwiki. wordpress.com/the-two-parcels/ https://greathousefarmwiki. wordpress.com/1916-tenancy/ https://greathousefarmwiki. wordpress.com/land-registry- titles/