Record revealed
Charter issued by the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar
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Series
Ministry of Transport, Highways Lands Division: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: MT 105
What's it about?
MT 105
This series contains selected Ministry of Transport files involving the work of Highways Land and Development Division (HL) and the Highways Land and Legal Division.The files concern the acquisition of land for roads, compulsory purchase order...
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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MT 105
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Lands Division: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1930-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains selected Ministry of Transport files involving the work of Highways Land and Development Division (HL) and the Highways Land and Legal Division.
The files concern the acquisition of land for roads, compulsory purchase order procedures, public inquiries into compulsory purchase orders for road schemes, compensation, the control of developments affecting roads and the closure of highways. Some files have been re-registered from earlier series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Registered files of the Ministry of Transport's Welsh Roads Division (RDW series) are in BD 30
Records of the Welsh Divisional Road Engineer are in BD 31
See also material relating to Welsh highways in BD 43
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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 from HL and HLL series have been re-registered 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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HL and HLL 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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- Department of the Environment, Highways Land and Legal Division, 1970-1976
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Administration Division, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Land and Closures Division, 1956-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Land and Closures Division, 1959-1960
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Land and Development Division, 1960-1964
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Land and Legal Division, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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424 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 1982 Department of Transport
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Highways Land and Development Division (HL) and the Highways Land and Legal Division (HLL) have their origin in the Highway Law Consolidation Branch of the post-war Ministry of Transport which under the Highways Administration Division, became the Highways Land and Closures Division in 1956. The Highways Land and Development Division was a product of the re-organisation of the Highways Branch on a regional basis in 1960 and it later emerged as Highways Lands and Legal Division under a further rearrangement in 1964. It continued to exist under this title within the Department of the Environment after 1970, although some of the work is now carried out by Regional Offices and Road Construction Units.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11154/
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Ministry of Transport, Highways Lands Division: Registered Files
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