Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Division II and Land Improvement Division: Registered Files, Rural Roads (LRR Series)

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Reference: MAF 378
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Division II and Land Improvement Division: Registered Files, Rural Roads (LRR Series)
Description:

Files relating to the drafting and implementation of the Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act 1955.

Some early files in the series contain re-registered pre-1955 papers from the ALM series: MAF 142
Date: 1949-1970
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LRR file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 20 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1955 to 1975
Administrative / biographical background:

The Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act 1955 authorised the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to make grants to highway authorities in Great Britain towards improving unclassified or unadopted roads serving livestock-rearing areas. Improvement schemes had to be approved before December 1962; and the aggregate for grants was not to exceed £4 million.

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