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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...

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MAF 235

Title
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Tenure Branch and successors: Registered Files, Land Tenure (LO/N Series)
Date

1869-1988

Description

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

Related material

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

Separated material

Some files in the LO/N Series are in:

MAF 25

AT 25

MAF 48

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

LO/N file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • 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
Physical description

403 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1980 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates

1947 onwards

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10635/

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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and successors: Land Tenure Branch and successors: Registered Files, Land Tenure (LO/N Series)