Forest of Dean

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

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