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A History of the County of Essex
… 11th century, when there was already a remarkable group of water-mills in West Ham. 5 Then, as later, the mills were … 7 Some changes were the work of millers competing for water-power. 8 Others resulted from success or failure in the … by its use as one of the main sources of east London's water supply. The West Ham Waterworks Co., founded about …
A History of the County of Essex
… and in 1936 supplied five members of the English Olympic water polo team. 108 E. H. Temme of Plaistow was the first …
A Dictionary of London
… et nomine extra unam portarum." Much of it marshy, full of water and mud as appears from Dugdale's account of the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… is part of a complex system built to control the flow of water into the millstream, which crossed the parish, powering … to straighten the river to create a greater head of water possibly increased the risk of flooding. The compact … during the 19th century. 11 The farmstead is provided with water via a channel diverted from the Brue close to Lydford …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of arable land in demesne, and twenty of mea dow, and a water mill, paying the prior of Monkebreton 8d. per annum, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 2,300 acres, the parish lies mainly between Udden's Water and Moors River; it is entirely on Bagshot Beds which …
Survey of London
… there from the Harvey family and made a living selling the water. About 1697 Baynes created a new conduit or reservoir … by the spring, which was said to supply 20,000 gallons of water daily, 'strongly impregnated with Steel and Sea Salt'. … steps in one corner, galleries on two or three sides, and water gushing in from an ornamental spout (Ill. 10). 18 8. …
Survey of London
… records that the house was initially supplied with water from the White Conduit built to serve the Charterhouse. … architects had wanted it. The attached boiler supplied hot water to the flats but not central heating. A caretaker's … Estates Ltd. Built on the site of a wartime emergency water-tank, it is an L-shaped, concrete-framed block faced in …