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MIDDLESEX ENCLOSURES

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1437

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: MIDDLESEX ENCLOSURES

Date(s): 1800-1825

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

During the 18th and 19th centuries Parliamentary Acts were used to enclose (fence off) common lands and uninhabited waste lands and entitle them to an owner. Common land was that which had traditionally been used by locals (commoners) for communal pasture or farming.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Enclosure Acts relating to Chiswick, Cranford, Edmonton, Enfield, Finchley, Harlington, Harrow, Hayes, Isleworth, Northolt and Willesden.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/1437/001 to ACC/1437/012.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in November 1978.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Common land | Land use

Enclosure | Land management | Land economics | Agricultural economics

Enclosure records | Documents | Information sources

Enclosures | Land use

Inclosure legislation | Legislation | Law

Land tenure

Personal names

Corporate names

Places

Chiswick | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Cranford | Hounslow | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Edmonton | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Enfield (district) | Enfield | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Finchley | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Harlington | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Harrow | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Hayes | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Isleworth | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Northolt | Ealing | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Willesden | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe

Barnet

Brent

Bromley

Hillingdon