TOWN BUYS AN ESTATE
£2,000,000 GARDEN CITY SCHEME DUDLEY, Oct. 22. , Dudley Town Council has purchased. : from the Earl of -Dudley • the Priorv Estate of :521- acres for £77;500. It is' < principally agricultural land, and the ■ prico is a' litttle less than £150 ; an acre., The estate includes a rhagnii ficent mansion, tlio Priory Hall, where I successive agents to Lord Dudley have resided, while near by are the ruins lof the old Benedictine monastery, ; founded in the twelfth century. The | castle and extensively wooded heights [at the back of the estate have been ; leased to the town for ninety-nine mjarfc ,at, a peppercorn rent.■■' ~ (The council propose the construe* ttiAn.of a garden city of 3000 houses, with social amenities, at a cost of nearly £3,000,000, and the scheme will form the basis of a Greater Dudley, half the land boing in the area of an adjoining authority.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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148TOWN BUYS AN ESTATE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16209, 6 December 1926, Page 11
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