§ Viscount BRIDGEMANasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many field monument wardens have been appointed; where were they first appointed; what are their duties and what is their approximate cost in the current financial year.
§ Lord MOWBRAY and STOURTONTwenty-one field monument wardens were appointed in England on 27th November, 1978. Twenty wardens are currently in post.
The table shows where the wardens work— 1787WA
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Home town Area of responsibility Alnwick, Northumberland Northumberland Tyne and Wear Durham Cumbria Richmond, North Yorkshire North West Yorkshire Northallerton, North Yorkshire North East Yorkshire (including North York Moors) York North Humberside West Yorkshire (East Riding) Wrexham, Clywd Staffordshire West Cheshire Merseyside North Salop (except South Shropshire) Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Hereford Leominster South Herefordshire Hereford Forest of Dean South Shropshire Witney, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Northamptonshire West Wickham, Kent Kent London borough of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon and Richmond Guildford, Surrey Hampshire (except New Forest) East Berkshire (including Reading) (not the Isle of Wight) New Milton, Hampshire Dorset Blakedon, Kidderminster Warwickshire West Midlands Gloucestershire (except Forest of Dean) The Districts of Wyre Forest, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Worcester Wychavon and Malvern Hills
Home town Area of responsibility Godstone, Surrey Surrey Sussex Greater London Borough of Sutton Kingston and Merton Salisbury, Wiltshire North Wiltshire West Berkshire South Wiltshire Hampshire New Forest London Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex Hertfordshire Essex St. Austell, Cornwall West Cornwall Torpoint, Cornwall South Devon South East Cornwall Tavistock, Devon North East Devon North East Cornwall Wardens are part-time employees, whose duties are to monitor the condition of scheduled field monuments by visiting them, talking to the owners and occupiers of the sites and reporting their findings.
The approximate total cost of wardens in this financial year will be £32,000.
House adjourned at twenty-three minutes before nine o'clock.