Catalogue description Public Record Office: Maps, plans and related documents extracted to flat storage from records of the Forestry Commission

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Details of MPO 1
Reference: MPO 1
Title: Public Record Office: Maps, plans and related documents extracted to flat storage from records of the Forestry Commission
Description:

This series contains maps deposited with the Forestry Commission under the New Forest Act 1949 s 4(6) and the New Forest Act 1964 s 2(5), formerly held in PRO record series F 2. The base maps used were Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 sheets. A key to the sheets used is in F 2/292. Each set of maps was accompanied by an historical introduction; these remain in the parent series: F 2/1 and F 2/303.

Date: 19th century-1972
Arrangement:

The entire contents of the record series F 2 were transferred to the map prefix MPO in 1976. Documents which were not flat maps reverted to their F 2 references in 1998.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 298 portfolio(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accumulation dates: 1950s-1976

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