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Transport Ministries: Highways General (HG Series) Files
Catalogue reference: MT 127
What's it about?
MT 127
This series of registered files deal with the acquisition and management of land required for trunk roads, with the confirmation of orders made by local authorities for compulsory purchase for road purposes, with policy relating to ferries...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 127
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Ministries: Highways General (HG Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series of registered files deal with the acquisition and management of land required for trunk roads, with the confirmation of orders made by local authorities for compulsory purchase for road purposes, with policy relating to ferries connecting classified roads. Some files relate to the
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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 this series have been re-registered into the TPRA series 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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HG 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 Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Development Division, 1955-1959
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways General Division, 1955-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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118 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 2006 Department for Transport
from 1985 Department of Transport
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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 General Division was formed in March 1955 when, as part of a reorganisation of the Highways Administration Group, the Highways Development and General Division was split into two divisions.
The Division was responsible for the acquisition and management of land required for trunk roads; for the confirmation by the Minister, of orders made by local authorities for the compulsory purchase of land for highway purposes and of orders made by local authorities under the Special Roads Act 1949; for general policy relating to ferries connecting classified roads and for contributions towards surveyors' salaries under section 17(2) of the Ministry of Transport Act 1919; for orders made by the Minister reducing the status of county roads; and of appeals arising from disputes between county councils and other local authorities. It was responsible for any stopping up orders administered by the Ministry of Transport.
In June 1956 the Division was dissolved under a further reorganisation of the Group and its functions were distributed amongst the new divisions formed.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11176/
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