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Series
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Various Awards and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 2
What's it about?
MAF 2
This series comprises various awards and orders made under the Enclosure Acts, the Land Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, the Commonable Rights Compensation Act 1882 and the Copyhold Act 1854.They include boundary awards (which supplement the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Various Awards and Orders
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Date (When the record was created)
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1845-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises various awards and orders made under the Enclosure Acts, the Land Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, the Commonable Rights Compensation Act 1882 and the Copyhold Act 1854.
They include boundary awards (which supplement the enclosure awards), orders amending enclosure awards, and orders and awards dealing with applications for the appointment, investment and disposal of compensation moneys.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Abbreviations used in the listing of these documents are:
- B.A. = 'Boundary Award'
- C.M.A.A. = 'Compensation Money (Apportionment) Award'
- C.M.A.O. = 'Compensation Money (Application) Order'
- C.M.I.O. = 'Compensation Money (Investment) Order'
- O.A.A. = 'Order Amending Award'
- S.M.D.A. = 'Surplus Money Disposal Award'
- D.A. = 'Drainage Award'
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Agriculture, 1889-1903
- Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1903-1919
- Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Commission, 1851-1882
- Land Commissioners for England, 1882-1889
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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259 roll(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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- Topics
- Common land
- Food and drink
- Fishing
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10403/
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Various Awards and Orders
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