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London Metropolitan Archives

ENFIELD ENCLOSURE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1029

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ENFIELD ENCLOSURE

Date(s): 1804

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.04 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Unknown.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Enfield Chase was enclosed under an Act of 1777. 'Chase' is another word for unenclosed park land, where hunting took place.

Lammas Lands became commons on Lammas Day (August 1st) when they were opened for common pasture until the spring.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Plan of the ancient enclosures, open and commonable fields, common marshes, and lammas grounds, chase allotments and other commonable and waste lands within the parish of Enfield, 1804; and ordnance map of Enfield, 1866.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Two items.

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 1968.

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 award maps | Maps | Visual materials
Enclosure records | Documents | Information sources
Enclosures | Land use
Inclosure legislation | Legislation | Law
Land tenure

Personal names

Corporate names

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