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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… season, with the heavy taxes arising from the late Crimean and Persian, and the present Indian and Chinese wars and to crown all, the … passed for pumping it and for settling the great drainage question, but unfortunately yesterday the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wicken lies about ten miles north-east of Cambridge, and five south of Ely. 17 It covers 1,604 ha. (3,965 a.) 18 … western bank. 20 In the south-west corner stands the small and isolated hamlet of Upware, at a site possibly so named … 66 Mains water reached the village in 1947, 67 but mains sewerage only in 1975. 68 Until the 20th century Wicken's …
A History of the County of Northampton
… which here forms the boundary between Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. 38 The parish is separated by the river from Thornton and Beachampton (Bucks.) on the south, and is bounded on the … piped water in 1896-7 but Wicken lacked a waterborne sewerage system until well into the 20th century. 5 Mains …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… out of the seven hides formerly assessed on the vill, and a third of its twelve ploughlands. But he had on it, with … by 'Mr. Cromwell's Mill bank', 64 probably commemorating a drainage windmill recorded from the 1630s 65 on a site … by an armed and mocking crowd. 68 By the early 1650s the drainage works had ostensibly been completed and the lands …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… held of that honor throughout the Middle Ages, in the 13th and 14th centuries as one knight's fee, 22 and into the early 17th century. 23 From Wimar the steward … lord Gorges of Dundalk, a vigorous promoter of the fen drainage. 61 Upware farm was part of Lord Aylesford's Wicken …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1160 hectares, lies approximately midway between Corby and Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The S. third of the … OD, except in the extreme S. where sands, lime-stones and clays are exposed in the valley of the E. flowing … with the abbey. Around it to the N. is a narrow drainage ditch of unknown date. Fig. 155 Wilbarston (10) Dam, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… belonging to the church of St. Paul, four men from Neasden and three from 'Forth tune', possibly to be identified with … 2 hides in Twyford held from them by a canon called Gueri, and 2 hides in Twyford said to be held of the king by a canon … green on Acton Lane as a group of buildings surrounded by drainage channels, presumably the remnants of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Public services Public Services. A whipping post and stocks were erected in 1680. In 1749 there were … Road in 1894. 1 Willesden is divided into two natural drainage areas, the south-east corner (Kilburn, Kensal Green, … In 1878 the board sued for an injunction prohibiting the drainage of any new building in Willesden parish into the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Settlement and growth SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH. Apart from Roman Watling … the decision not to link Harlesden with the Metropolitan sewerage system. 70 On the Tubbs estate drainage was diverted to the Brent at Stonebridge but less …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the east Shropshire coalfield, 4 km. east of Much Wenlock and south-west of Broseley which it adjoined. 64 At various times coal and ironstone were mined and iron was smelted and worked on … land management clauses. 22 In 1831 Lodge farm lacked drainage and was overrun by the landlord's game, 23 and from …