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Series
Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: WORK 16
What's it about?
WORK 16
This series contains correspondence and papers relating to the management and regulations of royal parks and other open areas in the care of the Office of Works and its successors, including buildings located within such areas. The series also...
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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WORK 16
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1736-2007
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence and papers relating to the management and regulations of royal parks and other open areas in the care of the Office of Works and its successors, including buildings located within such areas. The series also contains plans and drawings, deeds, licences and agreements.
The majority of files in this series were registered in the AD and AL and AL series, although some are from the AE and AK series, and some earlier papers are in unregistered folders. Some files date from after the creation of the Department of the Environment and the Property Services Agency.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For related plans and drawings, see WORK 32
For further files on royal parks see AT 28
For further records relating to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, see MAF 46
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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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AD and AL file 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, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Royal Parks and Palaces Division, 1981-1992
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, Royal Parks Division, 1962-1970
- Ministry of Works and Buildings, Royal Parks Division, 1940-1942
- Ministry of Works and Planning, Royal Parks Division, 1942-1943
- Ministry of Works, Royal Parks Division, 1943-1962
- Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, Works Department, 1832-1851
- Office of Works, 1378-1832
- Office of Works, 1851-1940
- Office of Works, Directorate of Works, Maintenance Surveyor's Division, Sanitary Engineers Section, 1928-1940
- Royal Parks Agency, 1993-1993
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3098 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1935 Office of Works
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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
- Maps and plans
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14617/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: WORK
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