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- Court of Wards and Liveries 1540-1645: land inheritance and disputes
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershipwards and liveries (court of) - Crown, church and royalist lands 1642-1660
Keywords: church landscivil war (english)early modern periodestates (landed gentry)landland ownership - Domesday Book
Keywords: datasetsdigitised recordsdomesday booklandland ownershipmedieval periodonline collectionsstatisticssurveys All records viewable online - Enclosure awards and maps
Keywords: enclosure (land)landland ownershipmaps - Environmental pollution and damage
Keywords: contaminated landenvironmental pollutionlandland ownershippollution - French lands of the English kings
Keywords: early modern periodfrance (english lands in)landland ownership - Inquisitions post mortem: land ownership and inheritance in the medieval and early modern periods
Keywords: early modern periodinquisitions post mortemlandland ownership - Land and property for charitable use: trust deeds, 1736-1963
Keywords: charitable trustsconveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershiptrust deeds - Land and property ownership: conveyances by feet of fines 1182-1833
Keywords: conveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodfines (land conveyances)landland ownership - Land and property ownership: enrolment and registration of title 1227-c1930
Keywords: conveyance of landdeeds (property ownership)early modern periodlandland ownershiptitle deeds - Land and property requisitioned for war in the 20th century
Keywords: first world warlandland ownershiprequisitioned landsecond world warworld war oneworld war two - Land ownership, use and rights: common lands
Keywords: common landlandland ownership - Land use, value and ownership: Valuation Office Survey 1910-1915
Keywords: datasetsfinance 1909-1910 actlandland ownershipmapsstatisticssurveystaxationvaluation office - Landed estates
Keywords: estates (landed gentry)landland ownership - Manorial documents and lordships and how to use the Manorial Documents Register
Keywords: early modern periodlandland ownershipmanorial documents registermanors - Manors and manorial records
Keywords: early modern periodlandland ownershipmanorsmaps - National Farm Survey of England and Wales 1941-1943
Keywords: agriculturedatasetsfarms and farminglandland ownershipmapsnational farm surveystatisticssurveys - Public rights of way, roads and other highways
Keywords: landland ownershipmapsordnance surveypublic rights of wayrights of way - Royal grants in letters patent and charters from 1199
Keywords: chartersearly modern periodlandland ownershipletters patentpatent rollsroyal grants - Tithes
Keywords: datasetslandland ownershipmapsstatisticssurveystaxationtithes