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Catalogue description Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authorities: Areas, Boundaries and Status: Correspondence, Papers, Maps and Plans
| Reference: | BD 5 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authorities: Areas, Boundaries and Status: Correspondence, Papers, Maps and Plans |
| Description: |
Files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Welsh Board of Health and the Welsh Office dealing with the reorganisation of local government in Wales under those sections of the Local Government Acts 1929 and 1933 (which consolidated the law on the subject following the earlier Act), and the Local Government (Boundary Commission) Act 1945 relating to areas, boundaries and status. |
| Date: | 1903-1957 |
| Related material: |
Other files relating to the reviews in Wales have been placed in HLG 43 A small number of maps and plans for Wales can be found in HLG 44 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Health, 1919-1968 Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970 Welsh Board of Health, 1919-1969 |
| Physical description: | 121 file(s) |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Local Government (Boundary Commission) Act 1945 required every county council to make a review of its area and to submit to the minister proposals for the alteration of boundaries, unions of districts, conversions of rural districts into urban districts and vice versa, or the formation of new districts or parishes. |
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