Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and predecessors: Resident...

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1803-1851

This series comprises 25 volumes containing entries of the accounts submitted to the Surveyor General of Woods and Forests until 1810, then until 1832 those made to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, then until the series ends in 1851 those sent to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings.

Accounts for a particular property may appear in one volume, but not necessarily in the subsequent one. The accounts for lighthouses, for instance, appear in the earlier volumes, but not in the later ones.

The accounts are not arranged in any order within each volume, but each book is indexed, principally by place and name.The volumes are now in a chronological arrangement, though the numbers still visible on the spines of the books show that they had a different arrangement before transfer to the Public Record Office.

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Public Record(s)

English

• Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1810-1832
• Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, 1832-1851
• Surveyor General of Woods and Forests, 1715-1810

25 volume(s)

Topics

Forestry

The accounts were submitted by deputy surveyors of woods and royal forests, park keepers and deputy rangers, architects (including John Nash and James Morgan), the lessees of Crown manors, and those responsible for a wide range of Crown interests including the lighthouses at Dungeness, Winterton, Orford and Harwich, the Menai and Conway bridges, quarry rents, gale (mining licence) rents for coal and mine works, the stone raised and exported from Portland, certain harbours including Holyhead, railways and steam engines in the forest of Dean and tolls from Regent's Park hay market.

The Crown land in Ireland included Phoenix Park, Dublin (with Decimus Burton's extraordinary services account), Howth harbour, the Howth and Dublin road, and the Pobble O'Keefe estate in Cork. The accounts were submitted annually, or for shorter periods, some for calendar years, others for the year ending at Christmas, or Lady Day.