General records of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and successor and related bodiesHLG 921941-1973Ministry of Town and Country Planning and successors: National Parks and Countryside, General and Finance Registered Files (91808 and other Series)
General and financial correspondence and papers of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to the planning and implementation of national parks and access to the countryside policy prior to and immediately following the establishment of the National Parks Commission (see Countryside Commission). Some files originated in the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Health.The series also contains the Report on National Parks in England and Wales by Mr John Dower in 1945, reports on coastal preservation and papers relating to the Nature Reserves Investigation Committee, 1942 to 1945.