The Crown Estate Office and predecessors: Foreshores, Registered Files (County Series)

This series consists of registered files dealing with administration and policy relating to foreshores in England, Wales and Northern Ireland which were managed by The Crown Estate commissioners and their predecessors. They include details of property transactions - leases, licences, sales, easements etc - as well as policy matters, and questions of title.

The distinction between files in this series and those in CRES 37 relating to general foreshore policy and administration is not clear. Both contain files concerning the administration of those foreshores for which responsibility was not transferred in 1866 to the Board of Trade under the Crown Lands Act 1866, but which remained under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Woods. Thus, any distinction between these two series has no basis in administrative reorganisation.

For information on the appraisal and selection decisions applied to records in this series see Operational Selection Policy OSP 2, The Crown Estate, 1975-1985.

The files are organised in County order, starting in the North East with Northumberland, and continuing around the coasts of England and Wales in geographical sequence, with the River Tees and the River Thames treated as separate sections. The Counties are followed by a Dredging section, and then by Northern Ireland which is treated in one section, not in county sequence.

For other Crown foreshore files see BT 297

Topics

Trade and commerce

Ireland

Crown lands and estates

Forestry