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Series
Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Books, Office of Works
Catalogue reference: LRRO 14
What's it about?
LRRO 14
Enrolments of deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of Crown lands, made in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.These enrolments by books were made after the separation of the Office of Works from...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LRRO 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Books, Office of Works
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Date (When the record was created)
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1852-1943
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Description (What the record is about)
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Enrolments of deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of Crown lands, made in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.
These enrolments by books were made after the separation of the Office of Works from the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues in 1851, by, successively, the Office of Works (1852-1940), the Ministry of Works and Buildings (1940-1942) and the Ministry of Works and Planning (1942-1943). They relate to royal parks and gardens and other lands under the management of the Commissioners of Works and their successors down to the middle of the Second World War.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Deeds to which the Commissioners of Works were a party are in: WORK 7 WORK 8 WORK 24
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers and indexes and a card index of the names of parties to transactions after 1 July 1914 which was compiled in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments. Please speak to staff at
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10330/
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