The Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues were established in the

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in 1810 by merging the former offices of

Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases The post of Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks and Chases was an office under the English (later the United Kingdom) Crown, charged with the management of Crown lands. The office was at one time divided between surveyors south and north of ...

and

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into a three-man commission. The name of the commission was changed in 1832 to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings. The hereditary land revenues of the Crown in Scotland, formerly under the management of the Barons of the Exchequer, were transferred to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and their successors under the Crown Lands (Scotland) Acts of 1832, 1833 and 1835. The

Crown Lands Act 1851 The Crown Lands Act 1851 is an Act of the UK Parliament. It established the Commissioners of Works as the body responsible for management of royal parks and gardens, specifically; * Saint James's Park * Hyde Park * Green Park * Kensington G ...

replaced the Commissioners with two separate commissions, the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings and the

Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues The Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues were officials under the United Kingdom Crown, charged with the management of Crown lands. Their office were customarily known as the Office of Woods. Under the Act of Parliament 14 and 15 Vict ...

dividing between them the public and the commercial functions of the Crown lands.

Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 1810-1851

First Commissioners are followed by the names of their co-commissioners

References

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, year=1960 *Annual Report of Commissioners of Woods & Forests 1811 *The Crown Estate publication scheme: website consulted January 2007 Lists of British people Land management in the United Kingdom Defunct ministerial offices in the United Kingdom Forest law Defunct forestry agencies 1810 establishments in the United Kingdom 1851 disestablishments in the United Kingdom