Series
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Tenure Branch and successors:...
Catalogue reference: MAF 235
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MAF 235
Files dealing with matters arising from the University and College Estates Acts 1858 to 1925, by which the estates of the older universities came under the administrative control of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.Other subjects in this...
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 235
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Tenure Branch and successors: Registered Files, Land Tenure (LO/N Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1869-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files dealing with matters arising from the University and College Estates Acts 1858 to 1925, by which the estates of the older universities came under the administrative control of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Other subjects in this series relate to the Inclosure Acts 1845 to 1882, the Commons Act 1899, the Metropolitan Commons Act 1866, the Law of Property Act 1925, the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946, and the Tithe Act 1936.
Thus, there are files dealing with matters relating to commons and allotments; to the control of injurious weeds; and to the rating of agricultural land and buildings. Some files relating to the Royal Commission on Common Land are also included.
Contains files relating to the destruction of weeds re-registered from the LOY file series: MAF 139
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related material on allotments, see the KA file series in JH 1
For material on infestation control see MAF 44
A register of complaints and prosecutions together with a portfolio of unregistered papers about the control of injurious weeds is in MAF 57
For material on common lands in Wales see the C and CG Series in BD 49
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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 files in the LO/N Series are 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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LO/N 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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- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division, 1953-1955
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division I, 1945-1953
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Division I, 1955-1958
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Management Division, 1958-1962
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Tenure Division, 1966-1972
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Use and Smallholdings Division, 1962-1966
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967
- Welsh Office, 1965-1999
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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403 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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From 1980 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1947 onwards
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10635/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Tenure Branch and successors: Registered Files, Land Tenure (LO/N Series)