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Series
Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and successors: Windsor Estate Office:...
Catalogue reference: CRES 46
What's it about?
CRES 46
Files contain letters in and copies of letters despatched, the related minutes, reports and memoranda, and a number of plans. The correspondence is mainly between the deputy surveyor at Windsor and the commissioners of Crown lands in Whitehall,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CRES 46
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and successors: Windsor Estate Office: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1869-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files contain letters in and copies of letters despatched, the related minutes, reports and memoranda, and a number of plans. The correspondence is mainly between the deputy surveyor at Windsor and the commissioners of Crown lands in Whitehall, various contractors, or occasionally Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle regarding the royal family's instructions.
Files also relate to the replanting or felling of trees, the renewal of pasturage, the repair or erection of bridges and buildings, the purchase and sale of livestock, access to the parks (including the closure of level crossings), the review of the Household Cavalry in the Great Park in 1913 and arrangements for military training there after the Great War, and maintenance and works at Ascot Racecourse, the Berkshire and Datchet golf courses, Rapley and Southlea farms etc. The minutes of the meetings of the Windsor Parks and Woods Advisory Committee and related correspondence for the period 1916-1926, and similar papers of the Windsor Parks Consultative Committee for the period 1935-1937 are also in this series.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Crown Lands, 1925-1956
- Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 1851-1924
- The Crown Estate, 1956-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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88 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5496/
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Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and successors: Windsor Estate Office: Correspondence and Papers
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