Maintaining parish council records

These should all be kept permanently and preferably should be deposited in the NRO. They include the following. 

Parliamentary Inclosure

• Inclosure Award and Map - often the root of title to land owned by the parish council (such as surveyor's allotments, poor's allotments, fuel allotments and the parish staithe)
• Inclosure Act
• Statement of claims made to Inclosure Commissioners
• Minutes of proceedings of Commissioners
• Commissioners' accounts
• Commissioners' printed extracts from the inclosure award

The Overseers of the Poor

• Overseers' account books
• Poor rate books
• Parish valuations for rating purposes
• Inventories of furniture and fittings of the workhouse
• Removal orders
• Settlement certificates
• Settlement examinations
• JP's certificates of appointment of overseer
• Appointments and contracts of assistant overseer, master of workhouse, surgeon to the parish poor, etc

The surveyor of the highways

• Surveyors' account books
• Highway rate books
• Plans of parish gravel, sand and clay pits and public watering places

Charities

• Founder's will or foundation deed (but note that this often does not exist)
• Account books and lists of recipients
• Papers relating to legal disputes
• Public notices (inviting applications, advertising auction of lettings etc)
• Charity Commission scheme

Fire brigade

• Minute books of association for preservation of property from loss by fire
• Firemen's contracts
• Bills for purchase of fire engine
• Contracts with neighbouring fire brigades for fire cover

Street lighting

• Lighting Commissioners' minute books
• Lamplighters' contracts
• Contracts with gas companies for supply

Burial grounds

• Burial Board minute books
• Burial registers
• Bills for purchase of parish hearse

(See also the list of records generated by the Parish Council)

Miscellaneous

• Dikereeves' account books
• Adjoistment books
• Surveys and plans of the parish