Each collection of documents held at Nottinghamshire Archives is grouped together into one of twenty archive groups.

Click on the links below to find out more about the types of documents collected together in each group.

Archive groups

Nottinghamshire County Council records

Reference: CC
Coverage: 1889 - 1974
Includes: Council minutes; committee minutes; reports; accounts; title deeds; year books; vehicle licensing documents; police officers registers

Nottingham City Council records

Reference: CA
Coverage: 12th century - 20th century
Includes: Council minutes; committee minutes; reports; accounts; city title deeds; city building plans; electoral registers; police officers registers; criminal photograph books

District and Borough Council records

Reference: DC
Coverage: 1894 - 1974 (some earlier)
Includes: Council minutes; committee minutes; reports; accounts; building plans

Parish Council records

Reference: PaC
Coverage: from 1894
Includes: Account books; Parish Council minute books; committee minute books; rate books; correspondence

Court records

Reference: C
Coverage: 15th century - 20th century
Includes: Minute books; court registers; calendars of prisoners; transportation agreements; deposited plans of public undertakings

Probate records

Reference: P
Coverage: 16th century - 20th century
Includes: Wills and inventories

Semi-official records

Reference: SO
Coverage: 16th century - 20th century
Includes: Hospital records; Inland Revenue records; Colliery records; Poor Law Union records

School records

Reference: S
Coverage: 19th century - 20th century (some earlier)
Includes: School board records and records of individual schools, including admissions registers and log books

Southwell Diocesan records

Reference: DR
Coverage: from 1884 (some earlier)
Includes: Diocesan registers; bishops' transcripts; glebe terriers; faculties; Diocesan day books; Diocesan magazines

Southwell Chapter records

Reference: SC
Coverage: 12th century - 19th century
Includes: Chapter records, property records, finance records, court records, marriage licences

Parish records

Reference: PR
Coverage: 16th century - 20th century
Includes: Baptism, marriage and burial registers; vestry and parochial church council minutes; churchwardens' accounts; overseers of the poor accounts; settlement examinations and certificates; removal orders

Non-conformist records

Reference: NC
Coverage: 17th century - 20th century
Includes: Methodist; Baptist; Quaker; and Jewish records

Maps and plans

References: various
Coverage: 16th century - 20th century

Enclosure awards

Reference: EA
Coverage: 18th century - 19th century
Include: Enclosure awards; enclosure maps

Tithe awards

Reference: AT
Coverage: 1836 - c 1850
Include: Tithe apportionments; tithe maps

Ordnance Survey maps

Reference: OS
Coverage: c 1830 - c 1940

Deposited documents

References: DD, M
Coverage: 12th century - 20th century
Includes: Estate and family archives; business records; records of organisations, societies and clubs; personal papers including letters and diaries

Prints and illustrations

Reference: X/PR
Coverage: 17th century - 20th century

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