Series
Office of Works: Treasury Letter Books
Catalogue reference: WORK 2
Date: 1725-1881
These are entry books of letters to and from the Treasury kept by the Office of Works, between 1832 and 1851, by the Works Department of the...
Series
Forestry Commission: Westonbirt Arboretum: Records
Catalogue reference: F 44
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F 44
Records relating to the acquisition and administration of the arboretum, and its development by the Forestry Commission as a recreational and educational centre. This series contains some records dating from the ownership of the Morley family.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- F 44
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Title (The name of the record)
- Forestry Commission: Westonbirt Arboretum: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1952-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records relating to the acquisition and administration of the arboretum, and its development by the Forestry Commission as a recreational and educational centre. This series contains some records dating from the ownership of the Morley family.
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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, South West (England) Conservancy, Westonbirt Arboretum, 1956-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5 files and flat sheets
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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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Westonbirt Arboretum
Westonbirt Arboretum, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, was established in 1829 by the landowner, Robert Holford. Some 600 acres were progressively planted up as a private arboretum over the next 125 years with specimens of trees from around the world. The Holford estate passed in 1927 to the Morley Family, and eventually passed from them to the government in lieu of death duties in 1956, when the arboretum was handed to the Forestry Commission.
The arboretum was established as a separate administrative unit in the Commission as a District within the South West (England) Conservancy. Following the reorganisation of the Commission in 1992, the arboretum became a Forest District within the Forest Enterprise Agency.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7235/
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