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Ministry of Town and Country Planning and successors: National Parks and Countryside,...
Catalogue reference: HLG 92
What's it about?
HLG 92
General and financial correspondence and papers of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to the planning and implementation of national parks and access to the countryside policy prior...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HLG 92
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Town and Country Planning and successors: National Parks and Countryside, General and Finance Registered Files (91808 and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1941-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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General and financial correspondence and papers of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government relating to the planning and implementation of national parks and access to the countryside policy prior to and immediately following the establishment of the National Parks Commission (see Countryside Commission). Some files originated in the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Health.The series also contains the Report on National Parks in England and Wales by Mr John Dower in 1945, reports on coastal preservation and papers relating to the Nature Reserves Investigation Committee, 1942 to 1945.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the records of the National Parks Commission and the Countryside Commission COU
See also HLG 52
The records of the National Parks Committee and the Wildlife Conservation Special Committee are in HLG 93
For other related files see HLG 129
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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91808 file series
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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)
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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967
- Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
- Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951
- Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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182 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Index to file series with series list
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8787/
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Ministry of Town and Country Planning and successors: National Parks and Countryside, General and Finance Registered Files (91808 and other Series)
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