Catalogue description PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS : HUNGERFORD DIVISION

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Title: PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS : HUNGERFORD DIVISION
Description: COURT IN SESSION : court minutes, 1855-1879; court papers, 1831-1832, 1879-1880; court registers, 1898-1911, 1921-1964; pardon, 1936.; REGISTRATIONS AND DEPOSIT : licensing papers, c.1950; register of premises licensed to keep explosives, 1947-1967.; ADMINISTRATION : clerk's correspondence, 1875, 1906-1914; notice of date of general annual licensing meetings, 1877..
Date: 1831-1967
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hungerford Petty Sessional Division
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in December 1949 (acc. 208); July 1975 (off. acc. 75/717(part)) ; February 1994 (acc. 5379).

 

Provenance unknown : 1A/2

 

Acc. 208 : 1/1-8 ; 1A/1 ; 2/1-4 ; 12/1 ; 25/1,2 ; 26/1

 

Off. acc. 75/717(part) : 20/1 ; 17/1

 

Acc. 5379 : 2/5-12
Subjects:
  • Hungerford, Berkshire
  • Administration of justice
Administrative / biographical background:

Note on the boundaries of the division

 

Before 1895, Hungerford division did not officially exist, but before this, there were petty sessions held at Hungerford as a sub-division of the Newbury county division. Circa 1883, this sub-division comprised the following parishes and places:

 

[Note : the earlier court papers, 1831-1832, indicate that the division may previously have corresponded to Kintbury Eagle hundred]

 

By 1929, Combe had joined the division, and East and West Shefford had become part of Newbury county division. On 1 June 1964, the division was amalgamated with Lambourn division to form Hungerford and Lambourn division.
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