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A History of the County of Middlesex
… infangthief, outfangthief, the assize of bread and of ale, fugitives, goods, and amercements of tenants in … Local Government Act, 1858, 59 was adopted to deal with sewerage, 60 and a local board of 12 members met twice … were formed later, often of a temporary nature, such as a drainage committee in 1883 and a fire brigade committee in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a Chancery order confirmed the public use of the conduit and continuation of the rent charge. 74 In 1819 the rector … used deep artesian wells by 1931. 92 Bad sanitation and drainage were reported by the vestry's board of health in … nearly 400 premises and ascribed much disease to poor drainage and sanitation. The committee was disbanded in 1849, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… contain brief summaries of new archaeological sites and finds which have been recorded from those parts of the … century and included stone walls of buildings, floors, drainage channels and a 'road' ( Northants. Archaeol., 11 … with an E.-facing entrance. This feature may have been a drainage gully encircling a hut ( Northants. Archaeol., 12 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… county, as it were, at one point of view, dropping here and there new matter, various in its complection and degree of worth. Nottinghamshire than, at one view, … Everton, Scaftworth, Gringley, Misterton and Walkeringham drainage act 1796. Gateford and Shireokes enclosure 1796. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… climate is equable, the July isotherm being 64 degrees, and that of January 40 degrees, while the mean of the whole … an increased value of at least five shillings an acre. 18 Drainage had been much required on these new inclosures; 'the … get good hay there. They were also too flat for ordinary drainage, and therefore became soft. The meadows on the banks …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… people lived in the two main towns of Shrewsbury and Telford, the county's landscape remained largely rural and agricultural. 3 The main crises in the long history of … the regulations concerning crop spraying. 14 Large-scale drainage schemes enhancing the value of farm land were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … to find that the soils vary to a very large extent, and that consequently there is no fixed rule or custom of … and when the dung in these is thrown up into a heap drainage and excessive fermentation are guarded against. On …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… directed, in the first place, to supply their own wants, and next, to enable themselves to purchase those necessaries … corn depended largely upon sheep, and, in addition, upon drainage. The six-course rotation followed in the … the harvest, and generally increase efficiency, better drainage was neededa need not shared by the south. Every …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Agriculture since 1870 AGRICULTURE SINCE 1870 Between 1870 and the present day English agriculture, and Wiltshire … financed by 30-year loans from the General Land Drainage and Improvement Co., was, on the completion of the … agriculture, for the new buildings and the drainage they provided led to an economically precarious …
Survey of London
… Regent's Park. They were built by George Thompson in 1826 and have a porticoed front to the west. The east front on … four arched openings, the two to the south being windows and the two to the north doorways. On the second floor over … and again from 1832 to 1835. Was made F.R.S. and worked on drainage, railways and harbours in England. He projected a …
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