Records created and inherited by the agriculture ministries relating to land tenure, tithes, common land, enclosures and copyhold tenancies, and to land use and improvement, including forestry.
Land improvement records: general correspondence is in MAF 48; registers of land improvement loans are in MAF 66 and MAF 238; planning approvals are in MAF 264; registered files concerning land management research are in MAF 253.
Registered files of the Land Use Divisions are in MAF 140, MAF 141, MAF 142, MAF 143, MAF 144, MAF 185, MAF 226, MAF 239, MAF 272, MAF 285, MAF 315, MAF 367, MAF 378, and MAF 391.
Land type maps are in MAF 289. Files of the Land Settlement Society Ltd are in MAF 139. Records of the Welsh Land Settlement Society Ltd are in MAF 193.
Forestry records: MAF 230 and MAF 374.
Records relating to Enclosure Awards and Awards of Regulation of Commons are in MAF 1, MAF 2, MAF 3, MAF 4, MAF 8, MAF 9, MAF 11, MAF 13, MAF 14, MAF 16, MAF 17, MAF 18, MAF 19, MAF 20, MAF 21, MAF 24, MAF 25, MAF 27, MAF 28, MAF 30, MAF 76, MAF 233. Records of the manor of Paglesham, Essex, are in MAF 5 and MAF 6.
Certificates of redemptions of rentcharge are in MAF 22 and MAF 26.
Registered files of the Land Tenure Division are in MAF 235, MAF 237, MAF 245, MAF 292 and MAF 348.
Parish returns are in MAF 65.
Records of the Royal Commission on Common Land are in MAF 96.
Registered files on farm productivity of the Land Improvement Division and General Agricultural Policy Division: Review of Grants and Subsidies are in MAF 419.
Countryside Legislation (CLEG series) MAF 753.
For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records relating to nature conservation produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food see Operational Selection Policy OSP10, Nature Conservation in Great Britain 1973 - 1991.