Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Registered Files: Land Cultivation (WAC Series)

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Details of MAF 143
Reference: MAF 143
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Registered Files: Land Cultivation (WAC Series)
Description:

This series deals with wartime control of land and land cultivation under Defence Regulations for agricultural purposes and with the appointment and powers of War Agricultural Executive Committees. Subjects also include the ploughing up and cultivation of lands, fen drainage, the improvement of fenland roads, the requisition, management and disposal of the Wissington Light Railway and notice to quit.

Date: 1940-1966
Separated material:

Files from the WAC series may also be found in:

MAF 48

MAF 53

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WAC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 51 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Accumulation dates: 1939 to 1964

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