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A History of the County of Essex
… 249 The commissioners' concern was to maintain the drainage system of the level. To this end they levied an … modification from time to time of the elaborate marsh drainage system. From the 1870s the commissioners waged an … their chief preoccupation. 251 In 1934, under the Land Drainage Act, 1930, the Lee conservancy catchment board took …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Church End and Pig Alley (now Beulah Path), a special drainage district. Later in the same year, following the … to exercise them in the whole parish outside the special drainage district. The committee might not, however, borrow … to concentrate on his sanitary duties. In 1873 the special drainage district was dissolved and the civil parish …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… in Warborough village and by Warborough Green assist with drainage. Most of the parish was organized in large open … reimbursed by the college. The college also paid for drainage and other structural improvements both at …
Survey of London
… and place are not what may be considered dilapidated'. The drainage was, however, very defective, and an outbreak of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… that it had no present intention of altering the system of drainage, and it would only proceed with the reconstruction …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the supply to Kingsfold was still not constant. 78 Main drainage was installed in the village by the vestry in 1857. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… rent, by 1836 £87 a year, to education. The rest went on drainage rates, ditching, and mole catching, but almost £200 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… under permanent cultivation for corn, following the drainage Act of 1741. 22 In 1814 the whole area around Denny … despite some opposition in 1813, 59 along with a new drainage Act. 60 The allotments were set out in 1814, 61 … on C.R.O., R 50/11/4/1; for 1740- 1 on Waterbeach Level Drainage Act, 14 Geo. II, pp. 441- 5; C.J. xxiii. 594, 690; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Ouse. 97The northern boundary, partly following a drainage ditch, was probably laid down when fenland … c. 24, pp. 439-58; C.J. xxiii. 594, 690. Stretham Common Drainage Act, 6 Geo. III, c. 93 (Priv. Act); Waterbeach Level …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sleeping by day. 44It repeatedly demanded maintenance of drainage, and sometimes in the 16th century exacted highway …