Catalogue description Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Deposit, Forestry Commission

Enrolments of deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of Crown lands, made in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.

These enrolments by deposit relate to the Crown woods and forests whose management passed in 1924 from the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues to the Forestry Commission. Under the terms of the Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Order 1926, s5(b), the Forestry Commission was relieved of the requirement to enrol deeds relating to the estates in its care.

See also Records created or inherited by the Forestry Commission, and of related bodies: F

Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers in LRRO 64

Forestry Commission, 1919-

Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers in LRRO 64 and a card index of the names of parties to transactions after 1 July 1914 which was compiled in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments. Please speak to staff at th