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A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government LOCAL GOVERNMENT Seignorial Jurisdiction and Borough Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century … repair and scavenging of roads, sewage disposal and drainage, water supply, public health, and suppression of … and a surveyor responsible for highways, lighting, and sewerage, who also served as inspector of nuisances and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … 1666 during the Dutch wars. 43 There is evidence of marsh drainage in 163940 and 16467, and the sea walls were mended …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … Committees were set up for finance, highways and drainage, public health and sanitation, improvement and … from outside the urban district. 89 Attempts to provide a sewerage scheme from 1899 onwards were opposed on financial …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … by 1765, but the extra land had been acquired by improved drainage in the south part of the leys not by further … due to 'continual mowing and inadequate manuring'. 85 Drainage was a constant problem, but little seems to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, … may have been between Upper and Lower Wolvercote where a drainage ditch or ditches ran south from Wolvercote Leys to … deepened by the Thames Conservancy and the Thames Valley Drainage Commissioners in 1884 and 1885. The road to Wytham …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the mid 16th century what woodland remained in Wombridge and Priorslee was probably coppiced; 7 in 1556 there were … 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th century were Queenswood and Wallamoor wood in … also tiles, quarries, white bricks, fire bricks, and land drainage pipes from fireclay. 85 The company got fireclay …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of what became the parish of Wombridge. About 1135 William and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on … Co.'s houses in the district generally lacked proper sewerage and drainage and were often badly designed and built and in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … population. The remains have been much damaged by drainage and quarrying, but recognizable earthworks still …
A History of the County of Oxford
… New Woodstock was incorporated in 1453 75 the borough and its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the … the corporation was responsible for water supply, drainage, sanitation, sewage disposal, highway and street … sanitary authority for the extended borough in 1886. 84 A sewerage system was discussed in the 1870s 85 but in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around Woodstreet, to … at river level and the channels serve a real need for drainage. Some may have originated before the Reformation as …