Catalogue description Forestry Commission: Westonbirt Arboretum: Records

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Title: Forestry Commission: Westonbirt Arboretum: Records
Description:

Records relating to the acquisition and administration of the arboretum, and its development by the Forestry Commission as a recreational and educational centre. This series contains some records dating from the ownership of the Morley family.

Date: 1952-1976
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Forestry Commission, South West (England) Conservancy, Westonbirt Arboretum, 1956-1992

Physical description: 5 files and flat sheets
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

Westonbirt Arboretum, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, was established in 1829 by the landowner, Robert Holford. Some 600 acres were progressively planted up as a private arboretum over the next 125 years with specimens of trees from around the world. The Holford estate passed in 1927 to the Morley Family, and eventually passed from them to the government in lieu of death duties in 1956, when the arboretum was handed to the Forestry Commission.

The arboretum was established as a separate administrative unit in the Commission as a District within the South West (England) Conservancy. Following the reorganisation of the Commission in 1992, the arboretum became a Forest District within the Forest Enterprise Agency.

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