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Old and New London
… of model lodging-houses, with perfect ventilation and drainage, and rents probably lower than the average paid for …
Cardiff Records
… saturating the ground. Fearing that if the plans for the drainage of the Town, which have been approved by this Board … remain in its present unhealthy condition and without drainage; having no private interest, I am induced, solely … read from Mr. Hawkshaw, on the subject of the delay in the drainage in consequence of an inadequate supply of bricks. …
Survey of London
… in the Council's sewer records, 5 for, when the systematic drainage of the area was carried out by the Surrey and Kent …
A History of the County of Sussex
… centuries, 9 but the improvement of the river banks and drainage in the mid 20th century removed that threat, and … while with the improvement of the river banks and better drainage the former brookland in the east part had been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… in bottom of wide open valley at c. 40 ft. above O.D. with drainage ditches of various periods around it. It consists of … is of interest in showing the changes made in the natural drainage in order to fill the ditches of some of the moated … by a ditch, now dry. Ditches once connected with water drainage of the moat lie immediately to the S. b(66) …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… level fen. That fen is divided by numerous straight drainage ditches made in the late 17th and early 18th … direction, indicates the natural direction of the fenland drainage before it was diverted north-westwards to lead water … laid out. 9 The fen droveways ran alongside the principal drainage channels: the main ones probably followed the lines …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at 2,000 a., 96 covered c. 735 a. 97 Its management and drainage was supervised by fen wardens, later reeves, elected … was not certainly divided with ditches: the existing drainage channels there, which follow the boundaries of the … had long been abandoned by 1765 owing to defects in the drainage system, eventually repaired by a Commission created …
A History of the County of Essex
… to a neighbouring church or as the course of streams or drainage ditches changed. That certainly seems to have …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… from the river 79 and took steps to ensure that drainage works, bridge building, or the construction of … 1835 the cost was shared by the turnpike trustees and the drainage commissioners. 40 After disturnpiking the liability …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… lay over a circular Iron Age hut. Two rubbish pits and two drainage ditches yielded late 1st-century and early … pottery beneath it and 4th-century pottery above. When a drainage trench was cut in 1946 in the field S. of …