Catalogue description Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues: Agricultural Department: Treasury Report Books

This series contains five volumes of reports by the new Agricultural Department, dated January 1907 to April 1919.

The reports to the Treasury (for authority to purchase or lease land, expenditure on new roads, repairs to church buildings and cottages, investigation of tithes, appointment of bailiffs etc) refer only to estates in England in the first three volumes, CRES 18/1-3. The last two volumes, CRES 18/4-5, include reports on estates in Scotland and Wales.

All the volumes are indexed by place, subject and name, though the cross-referencing of the index entries within each volume is not always consistent. Only the earliest report books occasionally have plans with the reports.

The reports mainly refer to the following estates in England: Acklam, Aldingham, Bedgebury, Benningholme, Billingborough, Bishops Cannings, Boroughbridge, Bromham, Burwell, Clearwell, Deopham, Dowthorpe, Gedney, Great Staughton, Hagloe, Holbeach, Horbling, Ingleby, Meux, Neats Court, Norfolk estuary, Northstead, Ottingham, Patrington, Poynings, Salcey, Shimpling, Skelton Cote, Stagsden, Sunk Island, Swaton, Swine, Threekingham, West Walton, Whaplode, Whichwood, Windsor (in CRES 18/5 only) and Woodhouse Grange; in Scotland: Dorrery, Dounreay, Scotscalder and Stirling; in Wales: Raglan and Tintern. The related Treasury letters, minutes and warrants are included in the volumes.

Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924