Catalogue description PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS : ABINGDON COUNTY DIVISION

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Title: PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS : ABINGDON COUNTY DIVISION
Description: COURT IN SESSION : court papers, 1880-1881.; REGISTRATION AND DEPOSIT : licensing maps, c.1912-1914; licensing plans, 1924; registers of premises licensed to keep explosives, 1938-1967.; ADMINISTRATION : fines and fees accounts, 1916-1930, 1932-1949 and financial correspondence, 1941..
Date: 1880-1967
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Abingdon County Petty Sessional Division
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in : April 1965 (acc. 1145); July 1975 (off. acc. 75/717 (pt)).

 

Provenance unknown: 1A/1; 14A/1-4

 

Acc. 1145: 24/1-4

 

Off. acc. 75/717 (pt) : 20/1-2.
Subjects:
  • Abingdon, Berkshire
  • Administration of justice
Administrative / biographical background:

Note on the boundaries of the division

 

In 1855, the division comprised the following parishes and places:

 

On 1st April 1974, the division was transferred to the new county of Oxfordshire, except for : Draycot Moor, part of Longworth, which by 1973 was in Faringdon division; and Little Wittenham and Long Wittenham, which by 1973 were in Moreton and Wallingford division.
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