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Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Books, Office of Works

Description and record details

Reference LRRO 14
Title Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Books, Office of Works
Date 1852-1943
Description

Enrolments of deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of Crown lands, made in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.

These enrolments by books were made after the separation of the Office of Works from the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues in 1851, by, successively, the Office of Works (1852-1940), the Ministry of Works and Buildings (1940-1942) and the Ministry of Works and Planning (1942-1943). They relate to royal parks and gardens and other lands under the management of the Commissioners of Works and their successors down to the middle of the Second World War.

Related material

Deeds to which the Commissioners of Works were a party are in: WORK 7 WORK 8 WORK 24

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Physical description 8 volume(s)
Access conditions Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
Unpublished finding aids

Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers and indexes and a card index of the names of parties to transactions after 1 July 1914 which was compiled in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments. Please speak to staff at