Catalogue description Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 25
Title: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Comprises files relating to particular commons and mainly concerned with instruments executed under the provisions of the Enclosure, Commons and Copyhold Acts.

Includes files relating to the destruction of weeds re-registered from the LOY file series (MAF 139) and from the LO/N file series (MAF 235)

Date: 1800-1956
Arrangement:

Catalogue entries for the items within each piece have been arbitrarily numbered in sequence for system reasons; these numbers do not appear on the documents themselves.

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

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001

Physical description: 264 boxes and files
Unpublished finding aids:

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