(in the UK) an institution where official archives are kept for public inspection.
（英国）（保存官方档案供公众查阅的）档案局
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His tomb of Dr John Yonge is now in the museum of the Public Record Office, London.
The Public Record Office for Northern Ireland was set up in Belfast in 1923.
The Friends Of York City Archives argue that the new facility will be too small, and point to a Public Record Office report which said there is ‘great scope for the creation of additional space’ at its present location.
Gilert's treatise is at Great Britain Public Record Office.
The will is preserved in the Public Record Office, London.