Catalogue description Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Enclosure Awards

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Reference: MAF 1
Title: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Enclosure Awards
Description:

This series comprises enclosure awards and awards of regulation of commons under the Enclosure Acts 1845 to 1899.

Date: 1847-1936
Related material:

For orders imposed after 1964 affecting Welsh commons, see BD 1

Reference to more recent schemes involving Welsh commons can be found in BD 3

For enclosure awards relating to lands held by the Duchy of Lancashire see DL 45

Records of the Enclosure Commission can be found in MAF 39

Separated material:

Occasionally, the map has been separated for conservation reasons and given a map extract reference, which is noted in the list. In such cases, the award and map should be ordered under their respective references.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Agriculture, 1889-1903

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1903-1919

Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission, 1851-1882

Land Commissioners for England, 1882-1889

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955

Physical description: 1134 roll(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

The standing Inclosure Commission was appointed to work through assistant Inclosure Commissioners and Surveyors. They were to carry out local enquiries in each case of the proposed enclosure and if the enclosure were sanctioned by parliament on the commission's recommendations, they were to be responsible for the actual work of enclosure and allotment.

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