Catalogue description Land Registry: Registered Files

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Details of LAR 1
Reference: LAR 1
Title: Land Registry: Registered Files
Description:

This series consists of papers and digital records relating to the policy and administration of the department and includes papers reating to provincial registration and the absorbed Middlesex Deeds Registry. This series also contains maps and plans.
Date: 1822-2018
Arrangement:

LAR 1/1-358 were originally catalogued under the subject headings of the various Registries. From LAR 1/359-409, records are in order by their original file references. Subsequent accruals of physical records were also arranged in order by their original file references.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
Separated material:

Deeds, etc, of the former Middlesex Deeds Registry are in The London Archives (ref: MDR)
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Land Registry, 1862-

Land Registry, Middlesex Deeds Department, 1898-1936
Physical description: 3022 paper files and digital records
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1971 Land Registry
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Publication note:

For further information about land registration in the Middlesex and Yorkshire Deeds Registries and in the district known as Bedford Level see 'The five English district statutory registries of deeds', WE Tate, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research XX, 1943 to 1945.
Administrative / biographical background:

On 1 April 1892 the Land Registry took charge of the Middlesex Registry of Deeds set up under the Middlesex Registry Act 1708. Titles registered at the Land Registry were already exempt from registration at the Middlesex and Yorkshire local registries. The former continued to function as a subdepartment of the Land Registry until 1936 when it ceased to exist as a separate unit. In 1940 its register was finally closed down under the Middlesex Deeds Act 1940.

Local registries were established in the three ridings of Yorkshire during the early part of the eighteenth century and were controlled by the county authorities. Under the Law of Property Act 1969 provisions was made for their closure and in 1970 those for the North and West Ridings were closed. In 1974 the East Riding Registry was also closed.

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