Catalogue description WANTAGE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL RECORDS

Records of Wantage Rural District Council

CLERK'S DEPARTMENT

Council minutes: minutes of the RDC and its committees, 1896-1974 (38 vols.); indices to the minutes, 1953-1969 (16 vols.)

Miscellaneous Council and Committee Records: Councillors' declarations on taking office, 1936-1972 (2 vols.); register of disclosures, 1951-1966 (1 vol.)

Miscellaneous records: volume of printed Acts etc. concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths, 1836-1838 (1 vol.); album of newspaper cuttings relating to Wantage and Faringdon RDCs, 1938-1963 (1 vol.)

Records in other collections

Draft minutes of Wantage Guardians and Wantage RDC, 1894-1899, 1903-1906 (2 volumes). See G/WT 2/1, 2

Wantage Rural District Council

Records containing personal information about named individuals are closed for a period of 50 years from the date of the last entry.

Records in this collection subject to closure are:

Volumes of Council minutes which include minutes or reports of committees dealing with housing and staffing matters (i.e. from 1939-1974)

Schedule of accessions

Acc. 1951 : RD/WT/Cz1/1

Acc. 3155b: RD/WT/Cd1/1, 2; 2/1

RD/WT/Cz 2/1

Acc. 3585 : RD/WT/Ca1/1-38

Acc. 3727 : RD/WT/Ca2/1-16

• Wantage, Berkshire
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