Institutional Records - Faculties and Regions

Faculty

History/Notes

Dates of Records in the Archives

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 The North Midlands Faculty, based in Sheffield, was renamed the Trent Faculty in 1975. At some date after this a sub-faculty in Leicester was created. Trent Faculty ceased to exist in October 1983, when the area was divided between three faculties, Sheffield, Leicester and Vale of Trent

 The Sheffield Faculty was one of three faculties which replaced the Trent Faculty in 1983. See AFE B (North Midlands, Trent Faculty) for documents relating to this area before 1983.

 The Leicester Faculty was one of three faculties which replaced the Trent Faculty in 1983. A Leicester subfaculty existed previously.

• See AFE B (North Midlands, Trent Faculty) for documents relating to this area before 1983.
• See history of the Leciester Faculty published summer 2005

 The Vale of Trent Faculty (Nottingham) was one of three faculties which replaced the Trent Faculty in 1983. See AFE B (North Midlands, Trent Faculty) for documents relating to this area before 1983

 This faculty was established in 1964, covering the counties of Dorset, Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands and southern part of Wiltshire (these areas previously being parts of the South East England and South West England faculties).

 Part of the faculty merged with part of South East England Faculty to form the Wessex Faculty in 1964.

 The Tamar Faculty was formed in 1980, out of part of the area covered by the South West England Faculty.

 The Severn Faculty was formed in 1980, out of the area covered by the South West England Faculty.

See Faculty History by Clifford Kay

 The Humberside (previously Hull and East Yorkshire) Subfaculty of the Yorkshire Faculty became a separate faculty in 1988.

The North East England became the North of England Faculty in November 1973. The North East England became the North of England Faculty in November 1973. A subfaculty was formed in Cumbria in 1976, which became a faculty in 1984.

Cumbria was formed as a subfaculty of the North of England Faculty in 1976. It became a faculty in 1984.

The Merseyside and North Wales Faculty was founded in 1954. From November 1987 when the North Wales sub- faculty achieved full faculty status, it became the Mersey Faculty.

Faculty

History

Dates of Records in Archives

AFA  Welsh Faculty

A FW B  South East Wales

AFW C South West Wales