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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
A History of the County of Essex
… of this came from the marshes and fields around Barking; sluice gates were opened at the onset of winter to flood the …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Newington, at the head of the tidal water. If there was a sluice from which the name came it is perhaps the earliest known use of the word lock for a sluice in English. In 1725 there was a charity school for …
A History of the County of Surrey
… was surrounded by the tide, which ebbed and flowed from a sluice at a distance of 20 ft. from the ferry then called …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the junction with the Severn by means of the double sluice mentioned a few years later. 87 The sluice was perhaps in the same position as the lock that …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… stone and one of timber'; and it also describes 'a certain sluice or lock, built of timber, to turn the water into the … even-song time the Sunday following; the which bridges and sluice or lock were to be repaired from time to time at the … costs and charges of the king and queen's majesty.' 4 A sluice at the angle of the brook to supply the northward part …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in a ruinous state and required roofing. The moat and the sluice regulating the supply of water in it were both …