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A History of the County of Somerset
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Between the 14th and 16th centuries Cannington was divided between the four tithings of Cannington, Chilton, Combwich, and Rodway. 36 Blackmoor, however, was said to be in Adscombe … board and was later part of the Cannington and Wembdon drainage district. 53 Cannington formed part of Bridgwater …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the family of Urswick, afterwards passed to the crown, and was held by Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby; the Coopers, Warrens, and others, subsequently … an act of parliament, on the occasion of a very extensive drainage of fen lands. The living is a perpetual curacy, with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Carterton Origins and development CARTERTON Origins and Development Carterton, … dry seasons'; 24 the need for public water-supply and drainage was stressed in 1917, 25 but piped water, refused by … until around 1938 or later, and there was no mains drainage in the 1950s. Electricity, supplied by the Wessex …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… to be summoned to state what he owes to Collingwood, and in case of refusal, to be brought before the Committee … of 485 l., and other parts, cos. Lincoln and Notts, for drainage, on rent of 743 l. 17 s. 0 d., which reserved rents … being part of that allotted to the undertakers for drainage. He has not held the lands 2 years, yet he and his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the river Thames at its confluence with the Evenlode, and covers 2,299 a. (930 ha.) of alluvium, river gravel, and … earlier 19th century, and were in 1982 little more than drainage ditches. By the end of the 18th century the main … north to south through Cassington village and then through drainage ditches into the Thames. The land rises from 60 m. …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… prospered, such as the tenant of Lower Cockhill farm, and there were substantial farmers in the 16th century but … AGRICULTURE Few early records survive for Castle Cary and little is known of its agricultural organization. … farmer who had studied at Cirencester College, carried out drainage, and supported the rights of agricultural labourers. …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the head of a barony as well as a manor, vill or tithing and parish. It was the administrative centre for the … also chairman of the parish council, dealt with nuisances, sewerage, and watering the streets, and other matters … part of the parish came under the River Cale and Cary Moor Drainage Board, which first met in 1923. 15 In the 1960s a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1546. 1 The ancient parish was roughly square in shape and mainly lay immediately south, southeast, and south-west … crossed by the Spittal Brook, which was embanked to form a drainage ditch until it joined the old course of the Sow, and … and by Silkmoor Drain. 365 In 1884, under the Tillington Drainage Act, Broad-Eye was made an outfall area for …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Catcott Introduction TOPOGRAPHY CATCOTT The parish and former chapelry of Catcott, like its neighbours Edington and Chilton Polden, stretches roughly northwards across the … of a dyke c. 1242 may suggest some opposition to drainage. 24 In the 13th and the 14th century land seems to …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… Ireland, in consideration of 22 years' service to the King and his father in Ireland, of a yearly pension of 100 l. for … Edward VI. Contemporary copy. 1 pp. ( 247. 323.) Drainage of Fenlands. [c. 1553.] Map of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, &c. Showing drainage system. Undated. 1 sheet. (Maps 2. 2.) Edward VI to …