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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Royal Commission...
Catalogue reference: MAF 96
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MAF 96
The series comprises the report and registered files of the Royal Commission on Common Land.
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 96
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Title (The name of the record)
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Royal Commission on Common Land
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1955-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series comprises the report and registered files of the Royal Commission on Common Land.
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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)
- Royal Commission on Common Land, 1955-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 285 file(s)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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A Royal Commission on Common Land was appointed on 1 December 1955 'to recommend what changes, if any, are desirable in the law relating to common land in order to promote the benefit of those holding manorial and common rights, the enjoyment of the public or, where at present little or no use is made of such land, its use for some other desirable purpose'. The commission, under the chairmanship of Sir Ivor Jennings, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, met for the first time on 7th December 1955 and its report was presented in July 1958. The commission was eventually abolished at the end of 1963, and management of former commission lands was transferred to the Ministry's Land Tenure Divisions and to the Agriculture Land Service, being run by an Estate Management Committee.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10496/
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Royal Commission on Common Land