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Survey of London
… of Brydges Street at its southern end left the intended drainage system imperfect. He was living in a house where the … effective sewer had been made to carry off southward the drainage brought down to his house from those above. This …
A History of the County of Essex
… c. 300 a. in 1838) were liable to flood; tenants repaired drainage ditches there in the 1640s and uncontrollable …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… From it the land falls to just under 50 ft. at the N. end, drainage being by two small tributaries of the river Ouse, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… saliferous formations in the Keuper, has blocked natural drainage, sometimes over considerable areas like the Weald … 85 Between the 16th and the 19th centuries artificial drainage reclaimed the Weald Moors. 86 Around Whixall Moss …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the 20th century. 69 Improvement of the river banks and of drainage in the late 1950s made possible the conversion of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… poor of Burton and Burton Extra townships. 14 Modern Farms Drainage undertaken in the early 19th century much improved …
A History of the County of Somerset
… for the meadow was good and pasture could be improved by drainage. 14 In 1801 crops on a total of just over 100 a. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… been 'destroyed some ages since'. Sometime before 1828, drainage work on the site resulted in the discovery of … them until recent years. They may be connected with the drainage work recorded in 1828 (M. W. Beresford, The Lost …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the road from Spilsby to Burgh and Skegness: by a drainage navigation which approaches within three miles, corn …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 76 evidence of the improvement brought about by recent drainage. By contrast, in 1879 Cook's farm was described as …