Board of Agriculture and Fisheries

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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:	1903-1919
History:	Formed by an act of 1903 the board combined its agricultural duties with former Board of Trade powers and duties relating to salmon, freshwater and sea fisheries. Under an act of 1919 the board became a ministry.
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	Statute 1903 c31; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C277315

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1847-1936: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Enclosure Awards	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 1
2	1845-1963: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Various Awards and Orders	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 2
3	1867-1956: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Metropolitan Commons Schemes of Regulation	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 4
4	1879-1947: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: City of London Tithe Rates	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 8
5	1841-1925: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Deeds and Awards of Enfranchisement	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 9
6	1845-1964: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Orders of Exchange of Lands under the Enclosure Acts	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 11
7	1839-1935: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Awards of Exchange of Glebe Lands	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 14
8	1873-1926: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Vicar's Rate in Halifax Act 1877	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 16
9	1854-1965: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Orders of Apportionment of Rentcharge	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 17
10	1849-1924: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Orders of Partition of Lands under the Enclosure Acts	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 21
11	1882-1925: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Certificates of Redemption of Rentcharge Series I	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 22
12	1846-1915: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Statements of Claims and Valuer's Awards	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 24
13	1800-1956: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Commons, Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 25
14	1876-1972: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Animal Health: Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 35
15	1837-1969: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Correspondence and Papers	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 48
16	1851-1957: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Improvement Loans	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 66
17	1841-1957: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Tenure Registers	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 76
18	1877-1976: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Pathology Laboratory: Plant Pathology Dept.	The National Archives, Kew	MAF 190
19	1914-1920: Treasury: Books of Out-letters to Board of Agriculture and Fisheries	The National Archives, Kew	T 109
20	1386-2023: Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies	The National Archives, Kew	MAF
21	1873-1977: Specimens of Series of Documents Destroyed	The National Archives, Kew	IR 900

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Board of Agriculture	Successor/Predecessor		See Also
2	Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	Successor/Predecessor		See Also