Maps of Maintainable Highways - Find a freedom of information request

1. What maps of maintainable highways, or similar maps, handed over from the predecessor highway authorities are held by the county council?

a). and where they are kept?

2.I have been told verbally that some of the maps of this were lost a few years ago, if that is the case I further ask the circumstances under which they were lost, and in whose custody they were last known. The question applies to the whole of the Lincolnshire County Council area, not just Kesteven.

1. In respect of the maintainable highways maps or similar documents that are held by Countryside Services at Lancaster House, they are as follows:

• Photocopies and microfiche copies of the circa 1929 Highway Handover Maps for the former Rural Districts of Caistor, Gainsborough, Horncastle, Louth, Sibsey, Spilsby, and Welton.
• A lever-arch folder contains form completed in the first-half of the 1960s for roads and lanes in the former areas of the Rural Districts of Caistor, Gainsborough, Horncastle, Spilsby and Welton. The forms detail the grade of the road or lane, its condition, location and what (if any) maintenance might have been carried out.
• Four lever-arch folders containing the correspondence, notes and committee minutes leading up and for several years after the handing over of highways from the Rural Districts of East Kesteven, North Kesteven, South Kesteven and West Kesteven. There is a lever-arch file for each of these rural districts.
• A lever-arch folder titled 'Miscellaneous' which according to the information on the spine contains extracts from Highways Committee over the period 1898 to 1929.

a). These are held by Countryside services at Lancaster House, Orchard Street, Lincoln

2. A catalogue produced by a colleague in Countryside Services about 14 years ago suggests that the circa 1929 Highway Handover Maps for the Rural Districts of Caistor, Gainsborough, Horncastle, Louth, Sibsey, Spilsby, and Welton might have been destroyed following an internal highways reorganisation. However, no details about which highways reorganisation this related to or when this happened are given, but it is noted that the only maps for these areas that are held by the County Council are located in map tanks belonging to Countryside Services at Lancaster House.