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Series
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 141
What's it about?
MAF 141
Files of the various divisions concerned with the utilisation of agricultural land. The series deals with acquisition of land for afforestation, transfer of land from the Forestry Commission for management by the Ministry of Agriculture and...
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 141
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Divisions: Registered Files, Land Utilisation (LU Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the various divisions concerned with the utilisation of agricultural land. The series deals with acquisition of land for afforestation, transfer of land from the Forestry Commission for management by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, National Parks, nature reserves and access to the countryside, open cast coal and mineral workings, restoration of land after workings, deep mining subsidence, refuse tips, disposal of industrial waste, water gathering grounds, tree felling licences and preservation orders.
Contains some files re-registered from the FOR file series: MAF 230
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files within each transfer are arranged in file reference order.
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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 LU 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)
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LU 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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553 file(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1972-2017 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)
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1947
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10541/
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Use Divisions: Registered Files, Land Utilisation (LU Series)
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