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.