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Series
Forestry Commission: Censuses of Woodlands: Maps
Catalogue reference: F 23
What's it about?
F 23
This series consists of six-inch Ordnance Survey County Series maps for counties surveyed in censuses of private woodlands undertaken by the Forestry Commission: in 1938 ( Lincolnshire and Montgomeryshire); 1942 ( Dorset and Cardiganshire); and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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F 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Forestry Commission: Censuses of Woodlands: Maps
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Date (When the record was created)
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1938-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of six-inch Ordnance Survey County Series maps for counties surveyed in censuses of private woodlands undertaken by the Forestry Commission: in 1938 ( Lincolnshire and Montgomeryshire); 1942 ( Dorset and Cardiganshire); and in the 1951 census of hedgerow and park timber.
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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)
- Forestry Commission, 1919-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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31 file(s)
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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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- Topics
- Maps and plans
- Forestry
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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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For the 1951 census, 441 six-inch Ordnance Survey maps were selected at random and part of each sheet assessed for small woods and for hedgerow timber.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7216/
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Forestry Commission: Censuses of Woodlands: Maps
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