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The first American invention to obtain an English patent
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Series
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: MAF 48
What's it about?
MAF 48
This series has been formed from several file series relating to land, its tenure, improvement, management and use. The subjects dealt with include: agricultural holdings, small holdings and allotments; common lands (general policy files);...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Land Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1837-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series has been formed from several file series relating to land, its tenure, improvement, management and use. The subjects dealt with include: agricultural holdings, small holdings and allotments; common lands (general policy files); copyhold enfranchisements and the extinguishment of manorial incidents; forestry; glebe lands; land improvements; rural housing; university and college estates; Orders, etc, in respect of the cultivation of land made under the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Regulations, 1914 and Corn Production Acts; procedures under the Kendal Corn Rent Act 1932; fen roads; land use (planning).
Contains some records re-registered from the LOY file series (MAF 139) on the War Agricultural Executive Committees, and some re-registered from the LS file series (MAF 140), the LU file series (MAF 141), the ALM file series (MAF 142) and the WAC file series (MAF 143), the CPB file series (MAF 144), the AHB file series (MAF 234), the LO/N file series (MAF 235), and the LI file series (MAF 238).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some KF files have been re-registered to FCP file series; see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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KF file series
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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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850 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10449/
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