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Catalogue description Welsh Office and predecessors: Plans of Airfields in Wales
| Reference: | BD 54 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Welsh Office and predecessors: Plans of Airfields in Wales |
| Description: |
This series contains military survey maps amended to show details of Welsh airfields. The plans were based on existing Ordnance Survey maps but were unlikely to have been created by the Survey. Some plans contain details of plans for stripping the airfields at the end of World War II. The plans supplement information contained in the aerial photograph collection held in the Aerial Photography Unit at Cathays Park. |
| Date: | 1937-1946 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 19 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 2002 National Assembly for Wales |
| Custodial history: | The plans in this series were created by either the Air Ministry or the War Office and passed to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning after the War. With the establishment of the Welsh Office in 1964, the plans passed into its custody. |
| Accruals: | No further accruals expected |
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