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• Updated: 13 July 2023

Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers

• Updated: 14 July 2021

Registering historic events in the registers of common land or of town or village greens.

How to register historic rights of common and make changes to existing rights during the transitional period.

• Updated: 18 November 2015

• Updated: 18 November 2024

How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a historic event.

• Updated: 12 December 2014

• Updated: 11 September 2013

How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.

• Updated: 31 December 2023