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Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Division and successors: Registered Files, Smallholdings (SH Series)
| Reference: | MAF 239 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Division and successors: Registered Files, Smallholdings (SH Series) |
| Description: |
This series covers subjects such as liaison with county councils, tenants' regulations, selection of tenants, smallholdings committees and loans to smallholders, and include the records of the Wise Committee of Inquiry into Statutory Smallholdings. |
| Date: | 1914-2008 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | SH file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division, 1903-1919 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division, 1919-1945 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Use Division, 1946-1955 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Tenure Division, 1966-1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use and Smallholdings Division, 1962-1966 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use and Tenure Division, 1972-1996 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use Division, 1955-1962 |
| Physical description: | 434 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1981 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| Accumulation dates: | 1949 onwards |
| Accruals: | This series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Agriculture Act 1947 laid a duty upon all county councils, other than the London County Council, in England and Wales to provide smallholdings for letting to persons with agricultural experience, and in particular, to farm workers in order to afford them an opportunity of becoming farmers in their own right. |
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