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Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Deposit, Ministry of...

Description and record details

Reference LRRO 20
Title Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments: Enrolments by Deposit, Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Transport
Date 1939-1950
Description

Deeds and instruments relating to the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of foreshores which, as Crown lands, were subject to the statutory provisions for enrolment in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments.

These enrolments by deposit date from the period when the administration of foreshores had passed from the Board of Trade to the Ministry of Shipping (1939-1941), the Ministry of War Transport (1941-1946), and the Ministry of Transport (1946-1950).

Related material

Reference to the enrolments in this series is by means of registers in LRRO 64

Further records on foreshores are in CRES 37

Earlier enrolments are in LR 1

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

English

Creator

Ministry of Shipping, 1939-1941

Ministry of Transport, 1946-1953

Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1946

Physical description 3 box(es)
Access conditions Subject to 100 year closure
Unpublished finding aids

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 is available as a means of reference to this series. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for the precise