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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in 1840, and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. A subscription library, established in 1826, has now a … in the district of PulteneyTown, and for supplying it with water. The town and county hall is a neat building of stone, … the sands on the shore of the bay, which are dry at low water, afford an agreeable promenade. There are no …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… five by 1958, were built on a new road at Upware. 66 Mains water reached the village in 1947, 67 but mains sewerage only … draining it. Moreover the sluice at Upware kept that fen's water level higher than in the surrounding farmland, while …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 48 An earlier writer commented on the excellence of the water supply and the availability of building stone, gravel … the mansion in 1913 and provided the village with a piped water supply, but otherwise the Douglas-Pennants did not do … and the farmhouses substantially built. Seven had piped water (five from the estate supply, two from the mains) and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the Middle Ages fisheries in named stretches of water called lakes: one, in Goosemere, was granted to Spinney … by the Mill way running in 1723 through Mill field. 27 Water mills were reported at Upware in the 1760s. 28 Wicken's … Sold in 1894 and disused by 1900, those pits were later water-filled and overgrown. 46 Another brickmaker had gone …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gas by a company established in 1823, and supplied with water by a company formed under the authority of an act in … 35 in roads and waste, and 100 covered at high water. The village is situated on the road from Maldon to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface is flat; a considerable portion lies below high-water mark, and some on a level with the bed of the river, … 738 meadow and pasture, and 128 in roads, drains, and water: an act was passed in 1813, for draining and improving … houses; it is pitched with pebbles, and supplied with water from wells, the property of individuals, and from a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by two steam-engines, each of 30-horse power, and by water-power equal to about 60 horses. The parish church is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… exist at the S. end. The remains of the pond in which the water was held was W. of the dam, in Rushton parish. To the …