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Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Division and successors: Registered Files, Rural Development Boards (RDB Series)
| Reference: | MAF 418 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Division and successors: Registered Files, Rural Development Boards (RDB Series) |
| Description: |
Records produced by Land Use Division, chiefly concerning the establishment and operation of the Northern Pennine Rural Development Board, its winding up and settlement of its affairs. Some files relate to the Welsh Rural Development Board, and others refer to the possibility of establishing Boards for other areas. |
| Date: | 1966-1978 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | RDB series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use and Livestock Improvement Division, 1971-1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use and Tenure Division, 1972-1996 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use Division, 1966-1971 |
| Physical description: | 56 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2002 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| Accumulation dates: | File series ran from 1966 to 1971 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Selected under acquisition policy criteria 2.2.1.2 and 2.2.1.5 (documenting the impact of the policy and administrative processes of the state on the management of the economy and the formulation and delivery of social policies) |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Under part III of the Agriculture Act 1967 Rural Development Boards in England and Wales were established. These were intended to develop the agricultural economies of under-developed (typically upland) parts of England and Wales by encouraging better land use (for example through farm amalgamations) and by assisting diversification into tourism or other businesses, so helping to counter rural depopulation and the loss of rural services. Always opposed by the opposition, the few existing Boards were wound up by the incoming Conservative administration in 1971. |
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