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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Reports upon Rating
Catalogue reference: RAIL 263
What's it about?
RAIL 263
This series contains bound volumes of rating reports. Each report shows (in no particular order) properties in various locations, the rates bills for those properties and the Great Western Railway Company's (GWR) opinion of the bills and its actions.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 263
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Reports upon Rating
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1879-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains bound volumes of rating reports. Each report shows (in no particular order) properties in various locations, the rates bills for those properties and the Great Western Railway Company's (GWR) opinion of the bills and its actions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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)
- GW 14
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 volume(s)
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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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- Topics
- Railways
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12451/
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