Wormwood Scrubs Act 1879
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title:
Wormwood Scrubs Act 1879
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The Wormwood Scrubs Act 1879 is a local Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to lay down the conditions under which Wormwood Scrubs in west London was to be owned by the British Army. 135 acres of land known as Wormwood Scrubs was bought by the War Office in 1879 to "create a metropolitan exercising ground in pursuance of the Military Forces Localisation Act 1872" The purchase was designed to ensure that a sufficiently large area of land was usable for military training close to the centr
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United Kingdom legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormwood_Scrubs_Act_1879
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2023-05-03T19:28:03Z
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