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This article supplements the information in the research guide on Public Rights of Way (Domestic Records Information 75). Researchers are strongly advised to read this research guide for more information.

Researching public rights of way can be difficult and time-consuming. Not every record in each of the series listed below contains information about rights of way, but some records in each of these series do include some relevant information. Other series not listed below may include relevant information in some cases.

[edit] List of series known to contain information useful for rights of way research

AT 25 Department of the Environment: Planning Sport and Countryside Directorate: Registered Files (PSC Series) 1949 to 1984

AT 26 Department of the Environment: Directorate of Rural Affairs: Registered Files (DRA Series) 1951 to 1991

BD 20 Welsh Office and predecessors: Local Authority Orders and Other Documents Relating to Subordinate Legislation 1915 to 1974. Open immediately

C 202 Chancery: Petty Bag Office: Writ Files 1570 to 1921

COU 1 National Parks Commission and Countryside Commission: Correspondence and Papers 1949 to 1985. Open immediately

COU 2 National Parks Commission: Minutes 1950 to 1968. Open immediately

COU 3 Countryside Commission: Publications and Publicity Material 1966 to 1994. Open immediately

CRES 2 Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues and predecessors: Unfiled Correspondence and Papers 1513 to 1913

CRES 6 Surveyors General of Land Revenues and successors: Constat Books 1660 to 1918

CRES 35 Crown Estates Commissioners and predecessors: Registered Files on Estates Remaining in Crown Possession after 1940 1706 to 1991

CRES 59 Office of the Commissioners of Crown Lands and the Crown Estate Office: Legal Branch: Solicitor’s Registered Files (C Series) 1911 to 1983

F 18 Forestry Commission: Headquarters Divisions: Registered Files 1912 to 1994

HLG 13 Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Housing Instruments and Consents 1910 to 1955

HLG 14 Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Housing: Registers of Instruments and Consents 1891 to 1955

HLG 23 Ministry of Health: Sealed Plans 1923 to 1937

HLG 26 Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Branch Orders 1872 to 1978

HLG 47 Local Government Board and predecessors: Housing Orders: Correspondence and Papers 1909 to 1977

HLG 66 Poor Law Commission and successors: Registers and Indexes of Sealed Orders and Plans 1835 to 1955

HLG 92 Ministry of Town and Country Planning and successors: National Parks and Countryside: General and Finance Files 1941 to 1973

HLG 140 Ministry of Housing and Local Government and successors: Countryside Division: Registered Files (C Series) 1950 to 1969

HLG 142 Ministry of Housing and Local Government and successors: Planning Division C: Registered Files (PC Series) 1946 to 1980

HO 141 Home Office: Appointments, Charters, Commissions etc: Warrant Books 1852 to 1876

IR 18 Tithe Commission and Successors: Tithe Files c1836 to 1870

IR 29 Tithe Commission and successors: Tithe Apportionments c1837 to 1901

IR 30 Tithe Commission and Successors: Tithe Maps c1837 to 1901

IR 58 Board of Inland Revenue: Valuation Office: Field Books c1910

IR (various series) Board of Inland Revenue: Valuation Office: Finance Act 1910, Record Sheet Plans c1910

J 108 Liverpool Crown Court and Supreme Court of Judicature, Liverpool Crown Court: Stopping Up Orders etc 1956 to 1977

J 109 Manchester Crown Court: Stopping Up Orders etc 1956 to 1969

KB 16 Court of King’s Bench, Crown Side, and Supreme Court of Judicature, High Court of Justice, King’s Bench Division: Records of Orders, Writs and Returns and Special Cases 1690 to 1984

MAF 1 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments, and related bodies: Enclosure Awards 1847-1936

MH 28 Local Government Board: Turnpikes: Correspondence and Papers 1872 to 1892

MT 78 Highways: Stopping Up Orders 1941 to 1974

MT 128 Ministry of Transport: Registered Files: Highways B Division 1923 to 1981

OS 1 Ordnance Survey: Central Registry: Registered Files 1791 to 1988

OS 11 Ordnance Survey: Central Registry: Policy Paper Files 1947 to 1982

OS 26 Ordnance Survey: Boundaries Branch: Boundary Remark Books 1850-1892

OS 31 Ordnance Survey: Boundaries Branch: Boundary Record Maps (New Sketch Maps) 1865-1947

OS 35 Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: 25-Inch Scale Object Name Books 1896 to 1938

OS 67 Ordnance Survey: Directorate of Field Survey: National Grid Object Name Books 1843-1983

RAIL (various series) Railway company records

T 180 War Works Commission: Records 1945 to 1964

TS 18 Treasury Solicitor: General Series Papers 1517 to 1958

TS 28 Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files: Air Ministry (AM Series) 1919 to 1982

WO 44 Board of Ordnance: Correspondence 1682 to 1873

WORK 50 Office of Works and successors: Government Property Registers 1716-1999