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Catalogue reference: MAF 238

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MAF 238

Files relating to loans for land improvement under the Improvement of Land Acts 1864 and 1899 and subsequent legislation. There are two specimen files for particular loan applications (pieces 7 and 11). The series includes papers relating to the...

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MAF 238

Title
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Land Improvement, Loans (LI series)
Date

1907-1973

Description

Files relating to loans for land improvement under the Improvement of Land Acts 1864 and 1899 and subsequent legislation. There are two specimen files for particular loan applications (pieces 7 and 11). The series includes papers relating to the Lands Improvement Company.

In 1940 use of the series was suspended and land improvement matters were dealt with on LOY files (see MAF 139). The use of the LI series was resumed in 1952, but was restricted to land improvement loans.

Related material

Other papers relating to short term credit and long term loans for agriculture, including the formation in 1928 of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, are in MAF 225

Separated material

A number of LI files are in

MAF 48

Some LI files have been re-registered into the FIS file series; see

MAF 315

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

LI file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

30 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Accumulation dates

1921

Administrative / biographical background

Several land improvement loan companies were set up under Private Acts of Parliament and empowered to grant loans to landowners to carry out improvements to agricultural land and buildings. The amount of the loan was charged on the land improved in the form of a terminable rent-charge, which was payable half-yearly for a period not exceeding 40 years. These improvement loans were sanctioned, but not funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10638/

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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Land Improvement, Loans (LI series)