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Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authorities: Areas, Boundaries and Status: Correspondence,...
Catalogue reference: BD 5
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BD 5
Files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Welsh Board of Health and the Welsh Office dealing with the reorganisation of local government in Wales under those sections of the Local Government Acts 1929 and...
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BD 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authorities: Areas, Boundaries and Status: Correspondence, Papers, Maps and Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
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1903-1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Welsh Board of Health and the Welsh Office dealing with the reorganisation of local government in Wales under those sections of the Local Government Acts 1929 and 1933 (which consolidated the law on the subject following the earlier Act), and the Local Government (Boundary Commission) Act 1945 relating to areas, boundaries and status.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A small number of maps and plans for Wales can be found in HLG 44
Other files relating to the reviews in Wales have been placed in HLG 43
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 Health, 1919-1968
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
- Welsh Board of Health, 1919-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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121 file(s)
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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 Local Government (Boundary Commission) Act 1945 required every county council to make a review of its area and to submit to the minister proposals for the alteration of boundaries, unions of districts, conversions of rural districts into urban districts and vice versa, or the formation of new districts or parishes.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2783/
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