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A History of the County of Shropshire
… smallscale and tardy. The town's paving and street drainage received attention in the 1840s, 13 street lighting … by 1600. 12 By the end of the 18th century manuring, land drainage, and the floating of meadows were all commonplace. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Somerset) district. 77 Improvements in water supply and drainage were undertaken from 1871 and in lighting from 1883, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… tubbe; bocking tub] A TUB, sometimes with an outlet for drainage, in which CLOTH, YARN or APPAREL was bleached or …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Edial, and Woodhouses, concerned at the state of drainage in Chasetown, agreed to lay a sewer along Queen … of those parts of Chasetown not yet served. 357 The drainage of the southern part of Ironstone Road in Chase …
A History of the County of Stafford
… with small entrance halls and a third bedroom. Private drainage works were completed in 1855 and by 1857 there were …
A History of the County of Stafford
… parts of the country in order to obtain information about drainage and water-supply systems, and among its … remedied during the next year by the completion of public drainage works begun in 1855, by the progress of private drainage works, and by the extensive installation of water …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Molanus, a Dutchman who had come to England to assist with drainage projects in Lincolnshire, 10 but the garrison … for an improved water supply. 4 Indeed, poor water and drainage were highlighted in 1874 by the medical officer of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… west after 2.5 km. to receive other straight parallel drainage ditches, also made in the 1670s and called by 1800 … partly by continual peat digging: about 1850 the lodes, drainage channels, and droveways stood out over much of the … 1", sheet 51 (1834 edn.). Lucas, Fenman's World, 2-6. For drainage problems in Burwell fen after 1800, below, econ. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… part of which, on the S.E., has now disappeared owing to drainage and cultivation, and the underlying chalk and clay … in the medieval period is indicated. Enclosure and drainage of fenland started in the Middle Ages and continued … curved, line. This was probably done by the Burwell Drainage Commission (cf. C.R.O., Map of Reach, Burwell and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in Burwell's fens were ended following the 17th-century drainage of the Bedford Level. In the late 1630s c. 712 a. of … thereafter were concerned solely, apart from enforcing drainage work, with openfield management. 51 Although the … or even converted to regular pasture, even though some drainage ditches ran besides the droveways and surrounded the …