Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Outport Records: Swansea, Neath
Catalogue reference: CUST 73
What's it about?
CUST 73
This series contains outport records from Swansea, Neath. They comprise orders etc. of the Board of Customs to the collector at Swansea, 1709 to 1900, with indexes to 1835. Swansea letter books, collector to board, 1730 to 1914; general and...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CUST 73
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Outport Records: Swansea, Neath
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1709-1920
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains outport records from Swansea, Neath. They comprise orders etc. of the Board of Customs to the collector at Swansea, 1709 to 1900, with indexes to 1835. Swansea letter books, collector to board, 1730 to 1914; general and miscellaneous, 1846 to 1911; Board of Trade, 1851 to 1903; Admiralty Marshal, 1893 to 1913; and wreck, 1888 to 1908, with record of disposals, 1898 to 1919. Principal Coast Officer Neath: orders and general letter book, 1817 to 1849. Staff records: Swansea, 1774 to 1920, with some relating to premises, etc., 1830 to 1888; and Port Talbot, 1904 to 1917.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 268 volume(s)
-
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))
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5649/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
39,787 records
Within the department: CUST
Records of the Boards of Customs, Excise, and Customs and Excise, and HM Revenue...
You are currently looking at the series: CUST 73
Outport Records: Swansea, Neath
You may be interested in
-
-
Focus on
The corsair state of Rabat-Salé
On the Atlantic coast of Morocco are two cities that became one of the most substantial Islamic ports of the 17th Century. -
Focus on
Blood in the Wear: The Sunderland Sailors' Strike and the North Sands Massacre of August 1825
Records of a coroner’s inquest on the body of the sailor Thomas Aird reveal details of a little-known seamen’s strike that was brutally suppressed.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.