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Many thanks to those local authority officers who have helped to complete the entries in the Search Sheets, including: David Chetwynd

(Windsor & Maidenhead); Peter Endall (Warwickshire); Helen Gilbert (Surrey); Scott Hawkins (Derbyshire); Chris Heard (Central

Bedfordshire); Peter Jupp (West Sussex); Chris Lambert (Essex Record Office); Mark Lewis (South Gloucestershire); Julie Mitchell

(Bedford Borough); Chris Stanford (North Yorkshire); Clare Spokes (Northamptonshire); Jane Stevenson (Suffolk); Steven Thoday

(Cambridgeshire); Anne Wallace (Cumbria); Caroline White (Staffordshire); Linda Wishart (Norfolk); Martin Wright (Cornwall); and Neil

Wright (Lincolnshire). Thanks, finally, to Kath Banks and Jane Turner for providing the facilities to study the case files held by

Lancashire on the original registration process under the 1965 Act; and to Simon Bailey for his help with the East Sussex register,

which was destroyed by fire in 1993 and required to be reconstituted under the Commons Registration (East Sussex) Act 1994.

This Website was created as part of a project funded by The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd. The page text and other information

made available through the site may be freely reproduced for non-profit purposes.

Note on the Implementation of Pt 1 in Wales

The implementation of the Pt 1 provisions in Wales is under the control of the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). It is currently

proposed that the Welsh registers should be fully digitised, as part of a process that is intended to create a single national dataset,

prior to the commencement of Pt 1. Hopefully, the digitised registers will be made available over the Internet; and they will

comprise the whole of the existing record, including the entries for the land that was provisionally but not finally registered under

the 1965 Act. In this case, the information to be found in the Search Sheets made available on this site would be directly accessible to

the public (but would also include the register maps). It is, however, by no means certain that this is what will happen.

Details of the proposals for updating the Welsh registers will be found in the WAG Consultation Document. A summary of responses is

also now available. For further information on the Welsh commons, see the WAG Website common land pages.