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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (t), probably a track, earlier than modern enclosure and drainage patterns, approaching the site from N.W. Roman …
A History of the County of Essex
… nuisance to the local board because of its lack of main drainage. 75 Contemporary with it was another small slum area …
Survey of London
… thousand feet of sewers, partly in continuation of the drainage system begun by Stephen Bird and partly in the new …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… set within a managed landscape of fields, enclosures, and drainage ditches. A 1st-century site on the modern village's … remained unconnected until considerably later. Mains drainage followed in the mid 1950s. 3 Benson's Built …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cultivation might be much improved, and a better mode of drainage adopted. Quarries of limestone and roadstone are …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and often around unpaved courts. An almost total lack of drainage and sewerage was made worse by the ponds formed by … the new church and schools on the other. The total lack of drainage, the stench, and disease were vividly portrayed. 49 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… relieving the unemployed to such problems as sewerage, drainage, and housing. Inaction was in the interest of the … the Metropolitan Board of Works to provide major sewers, drainage, and public works. Members were to be elected by the … written by Brutton, beginning 4 May 1820. Metropolitan Drainage, H.C.233,p.257 (1857-Sess.2), xxxvi. T.H.L.H.L., …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… over by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. 4 SEWERAGE. Drainage ditches or common sewers were recorded by 1660 near … densely built-up part of Cambridge Road. In 1847 house drainage into sewers was made compulsory 15 but in 1848 only … in many parts sickness was always present because of bad drainage and sewerage. 49 In 1841 poorly drained houses in …
Survey of London
… also unsold until 1822, perhaps chiefly because of its bad drainage. The gardens of the houses in the High Street were …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… are immediately above an area of low ground intersected by drainage channels. A ditch about 3 ft. deep and presumably of …