Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Common Land (CL Series)

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Reference: MAF 292
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Common Land (CL Series)
Description:

This series contains files created following publication of the report of the Royal Commission on Common Land in 1958. They cover a range of subjects relating to common land, including papers on the preparation of the commission's report, comments thereon by government departments and outside organisations, policy papers on the recommendations, working parties and legislation arising from the same.
Date: 1957-1965
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CL file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 55 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Administrative / biographical background:

The Royal Commission on Common Land concluded that: 'As the last reserve of uncommitted land in England and Wales, common land ought to be preserved in the public interest. The public interest embraces both the creation of wider facilities for public access and an increase in the productivity of the land'.

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