Catalogue description The Commissioners of Rye Harbour

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of SWA14
Reference: SWA14
Title: The Commissioners of Rye Harbour
Date: 1820-1928
Related material:

For records of the Commissioners 1724-1932, see KRA 1 and for papers [?1724]-1893, see NRA9. See also RYE 99, 101-103
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Commissioners of Rye Harbour
Subjects:
  • Harbours
Administrative / biographical background:

The Commissioners were appointed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament of 1724 (10 Geo I c7) 'for restoreing the Harbour of Rye ... to its antient goodness'. A new commission was appointed in 1797 under an act of the same year (37 Geo III c130). The functions of the Commissioners were taken over in 1932 by the Rother and Jury's Gut Catchment Board, under the Land Drainage Act 1930

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