National Parks Commission and Countryside Commission: Correspondence and Papers

Reference:

COU 1

Title:

Description:

This series principally contains registered files of correspondence and papers of the National Parks Commission from its establishment in 1949 until its replacement by the Countryside Commission in 1968. The files are divided into 19 themes:

General (G)
Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AB)
Brecon Beacons (BB)
Broads (BS)
Country Code (CC)
Cornwall (CL)
Dartmoor (DR)
Exmoor (ER)
Lake District (LD)
Long Distance Routes (LR)
Northumberland (ND)
North Yorkshire Moors (NY)
Pembrokeshire Coast (PC)
Peak District (PD)
Publicity (PY)
Roman Wall (RW)
Snowdonia (SA)
South Downs (SD)
Yorkshire Dales (YD)

Date:

1949-1985

Related Material:

Records of the National Parks Committee and Wildlife Conservation Special Committee are in:
For records of the Countryside Commission see COU 6
For records of the Countryside Commissioin see COU 7

Held by:

The National Archives, Kew

Former references:

in its original department: G and other file series

Legal status:

Public Record

Language:

English

Physical description:

1487 files and volumes

Access conditions:

Open

Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2007 Natural England from 1970 Countryside Commission

Accruals:

Series is accruing

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