The origins of the UK Ministry of Works lie with in the Office of the King's Works, which were responsible for royally owned properties from 1378-1832, when it became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works, succeeded by the 'Office of Works' in 1851. A series of name-changes and re-organisations followed - in 1940 it became the  Ministry of Works, then the Ministry of Works and Planning (1942-1943), followed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and then the Ministry of Public Building and Works from 1962. It subsequently was subsumed into the Department of the Environment in 1970 and  then, in 1984, English Heritage.