| | National Trust - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | NATIONAL TRUST [National Trust] British association to preserve for the nation places of natural beauty or buildings of architectural or historic interest in the British Isles; founded 1894, chartered 1895. |
 | | By act of Parliament (1907) the Trust was empowered to acquire land inalienably and to be exempt from duties on property given or willed. |
 | | In 1934 the Trust received special powers to protect by covenant privately owned property. |
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