Catalogue description Welsh Office and predecessors: Common Lands, Registered Files (C and CG Series)

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Reference: BD 49
Title: Welsh Office and predecessors: Common Lands, Registered Files (C and CG Series)
Description:

This series contains correspondence between the county councils and ministries on a variety of subjects dealing with commons. Most of the files relate to the administration of common lands and deal with subjects such as enclosure and sale of lands, provision of fencing and correspondence with local authorities and associations concerning the administration of the Commons Registration Act 1965. These include schemes of registration, enclosures, grazing rights and rights of way.

Some of the records in this series were created by the former Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, the former Ministry of Housing and Local Government in the KC file series and the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in the LO/N file series. These were then re-registered into the C and CG series.
Date: 1954-1972
Related material:

Earlier files relating to common lands in the LO/N series can be found in MAF 235
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: C and CG file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967

Welsh Office, 1965-1999
Physical description: 30 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

Responsibility for land tenure matters passed to the Welsh Office from the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources in 1967. These functions were most likely carried out by the Town and Country Planning Division.

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