LAND AT DUNKESWELL AIRFIELD NEAR HONITON, DEVON

THE CRICHEL DOWN RULES TRACE OF FORMER OWNER

Ministry of Defence land at Dunkeswell Airfield, Devon has been declared surplus to requirements and is being put forward for disposal. The Crichel Down Rules require Government Departments, under certain circumstances to inform Former Owners or successors that an exception under the Crichel Down Rules applies such that the surplus land will be offered back to the Former Owner or successor. It has not been decided whether the obligation to offer surplus land back applies to any of the land, but it is now necessary to trace the Former Owner or their successors. The land was acquired under the Conveyances set out below: A Conveyance dated 15 September 1945 from Sidney John Pring of Castle Farm Hemyock in the County of Devon; a Conveyance dated 15 June 1945 from Henry Robert Gibb of Westerhope Dunkeswell in the County of Devon and a Conveyance dated 9 April 1943 from Charlie Burrough of Southayes Farm Dunkeswell in the County of Devon. Former Owners or their successors in title should register their interest in writing within two months of the date of this notice to: Nigel Sweasey , Defence Estates Operations South, Building 1/150, Murrays Lane, HMNB, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3NH The successors in title should state and provide full evidence of their relationship to the original vendor. For the purposes of the Crichel Down Rules ‘successor’ means the person on whom the property, had it not been acquired, would clearly have devolved under the Former Owners will or intestacy; and may include any person who has succeeded, otherwise than by purchase, to adjoining land from which the land was severed by that acquisition.