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Series
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 135
What's it about?
MAF 135
Files of the Land Drainage and Water Supply Division concerning the following subjects: administrative work under the Land Drainage Act 1930, examination of proposed legislation affecting the work of the division; sub-committee on land drainage...
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 135
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Drainage and Water Supply Divisions: Registered Files, Land Drainage Administration (LDA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1932-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Land Drainage and Water Supply Division concerning the following subjects: administrative work under the Land Drainage Act 1930, examination of proposed legislation affecting the work of the division; sub-committee on land drainage legislation and development of policy arising therefrom; liaison with the Central Advisory Water Committee and with other departments on the Town and Country Planning Act 1947; the east coast floods of 1953 and coastal flooding in general; the Thames tidal flood prevention scheme; orders etc, under the Water Acts 1945 to 1958 and the River Boards Act 1948.
Contains some files re-registered from the RB file series: MAF 219
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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A few files in the LDA series may also be found in
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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)
- LDA file series
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 846 files, flat sheets and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1949
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10535/
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Drainage and Water Supply Divisions: Registered Files, Land Drainage Administration (LDA Series)
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