Catalogue description Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Map Library Boundary Maps

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Details of AT 98
Reference: AT 98
Title: Department of the Environment and Predecessors: Map Library Boundary Maps
Description:

This series contains Map Library boundary maps of the Department of the Environment and predecessors.
Date: 1881-1992
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
Physical description: 1101 flat sheet(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2009 Department for Communities and Local Government
Accruals: Further accruals are anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The maps in this collection were probably brought progressively together from different branches of government with boundaries responsibilities, reaching their greatest extent with the formation of the Department of the Environment in 1970.

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