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Catalogue description The Crown Estate and predecessors: Agricultural Estates Group and predecessors: Registered Files, Mines Royal
| Reference: | CRES 55 |
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| Title: | The Crown Estate and predecessors: Agricultural Estates Group and predecessors: Registered Files, Mines Royal |
| Description: |
Correspondence and papers of The Crown Estate commissioners and predecessors on gold and silver mines, to which the Crown is entitled by prerogative. Most files relate to mines or prospecting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although there is a single file on prospecting in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records in this series see Operational Selection Policy OSP 2, The Crown Estate, 1975-1985. |
| Date: | 1837-1989 |
| Arrangement: |
Where identification has been possible, modern Welsh spellings of place names have been given. Otherwise place names have been spelt in the catalogue as they appear in the files. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Crown Lands, 1925-1956 Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924 Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851 The Crown Estate, 1956- |
| Physical description: | 144 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
By prerogative right the Crown is entitled to all mines of gold and silver within the realm, whether the mines are situated in its own lands, or in the lands of a subject. Royal mines do not pass by implication in grants or conveyances by the Crown, although the Crown may grant the right to royal mines in the form of a franchise. |
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