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Forest of Dean

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Date: 1469-2008
Places:
  • Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (local) > Forests
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C79652 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O43669 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
16th cent-20th cent: Bond family papers as officers
Gloucestershire Archives
D 2026 X
NRA 25567
2
1565, 17th cent-18th cent: account of forests 1565
Gloucestershire Archives
D2700/604/3/1
NRA 6282 Somerset
3
1586-87, 1598-99: constables quietus rolls
Gloucestershire Archives
D326/X5-6
NRA 5482 Guise
4
1672-84: swainmote court rolls
Gloucestershire Archives
D36 Q2
NRA 9214 Colchester-Wemyss
5
1832-20th cent: verderers' minute books
Collection held privately: enquiries to Gloucestershire Archives
NRA 4147 Dean papers
6
1892-2008: verderers minutes and misc papers
Gloucestershire Archives
D6993
NRA 37893 Forest
7
1469-70: miners' court estreats (2 documents)
Gloucestershire Archives
D6177
NRA 3514 Glos RO misc

See Accessions to Repositories 1990
8
17th-18th cent: papers rel to rights of inhabitants and freeminers and to the courts of the forest
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
2568-2607
NRA 34642 Williams
9
early 19th cent: corresp and papers rel to poaching and tithe collection
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
HA
NRA 33080 Powles

See p364-392
10
c1617-18: papers
Northamptonshire Archives Service
BRU
NRA 34693 Brudenell

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [11a]
11
1789-1996: plans of coal and iron workings, awards, gale books, accounts, papers of deputy surveyor rel to manors, quarry transfer books, rent ledger, surveyor's notebooks
Gloucestershire Archives
D5947
NRA 37896 Forest

See also Annual Return 1999
12
1634-1636: records of the forest eyre and swanimote courts
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Harleian MS 4850
See Microfilm (MF 1417) at Glos R.O. (NRA 3514 D 3921 Acc 7646)
13
1874-1930: papers rel to rights of commoners and freeminers
Gloucestershire Archives
D15/10
NRA 3514 Glos RO misc