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Series
Forestry Commission: Forest Park Committees, Minutes
Catalogue reference: F 28
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F 28
This series contains one file, relating to the administration of Snowdonia Central Park.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- F 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Forestry Commission: Forest Park Committees, Minutes
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1947-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains one file, relating to the administration of Snowdonia Central Park.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Forestry Commission, Snowdonia Central Park Committee, 1945-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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- Topics
- 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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In March 1935 the Forestry Commission set up a National Forest Parks Committee to consider a specific example as to how the commission's unplantable land might be put to public use. It advised the creation of Britain's first forest park in Argyll, which was opened in May 1937. Subsequently, forest parks have been created in Snowdonia (1937), Forest of Dean (1938), Glentroul (1947), Glenmore (1948), Loch Ard (1951, but renamed as Queen Elizabeth in 1954), and Border (1955). Hardknott (1943) has since ceased to be regarded as a forest park.
The development of all actual or potential national forest parks was originally entrusted to a small executive committee, aided by a much larger advisory committee on which many of the organisations concerned with open air activities were represented. From 1945 control was decentralised and entrusted to Forest Park Committees. One of these was instituted for the administration of each forest park in England and Wales, and a single committee for all those in Scotland. In 1969 their functions were taken over by the Regional Advisory Committees.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7221/
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