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Series
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Awards of Exchange...
Catalogue reference: MAF 14
What's it about?
MAF 14
This series comprises awards of the exchange of glebe lands for other lands made under s5 of the Tithe Act 1842, as amended by subsequent Tithe Acts.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 14
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Title (The name of the record)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Awards of Exchange of Glebe Lands
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises awards of the exchange of glebe lands for other lands made under s5 of the Tithe Act 1842, as amended by subsequent Tithe Acts.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Items within each piece are not in reference order; the item references were created using the file numbers assigned by the creating department and before the documents were rearranged in alphabetical order by county.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 139 boxes and papers
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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
- Tithes
- Food and drink
- Fishing
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10415/
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