Catalogue description National Parks Commission and Countryside Commission: Confirming Orders for the Designation of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Reference: | COU 5 |
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Title: | National Parks Commission and Countryside Commission: Confirming Orders for the Designation of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
Description: |
The records consist of Confirming Orders for the Designation of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
Date: | 1975-2003 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Countryside Agency, 1999-2006 Countryside Commission, 1968-1999 National Parks Commission, 1949-1968 Natural England, 2006- |
Physical description: | 6 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2016 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The National Parks Commission was established in 1949 by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 to co-ordinate government activity in relation to National Parks. This body became the Countryside Commission in 1968 when its duties were expanded to cover the countryside as a whole in Englandand Wales. The Countryside Commission ceased to exist in 1999 when it was merged with the Rural Development Commission to form the Countryside Agency. The merger with English Nature created Natural England. |
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