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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parliament, in 1812, on the occasion of a very extensive drainage of Wildmore, and the East and West Fens. Westward …
A History of the County of Somerset
… into the surrounding moor by means of small-scale drainage by tenants, and by sharing agreements between … to 48. In the 1370s and 1380s there were problems with drainage and flooding and repairs to buildings but two … moor in 1638, perhaps a reflection of a deterioration in drainage. 2 In the 1780s the moors were said to be under …
Old and New London
… of births, deaths, and marriages, public health, drainage, public improvements, local government, &c., and …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… passed for pumping it and for settling the great drainage question, but unfortunately yesterday the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by 'Mr. Cromwell's Mill bank', 64 probably commemorating a drainage windmill recorded from the 1630s 65 on a site … by an armed and mocking crowd. 68 By the early 1650s the drainage works had ostensibly been completed and the lands … especially at their lower northern end, the three drainage windmills occasionally used in the parish c. 1795 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… lord Gorges of Dundalk, a vigorous promoter of the fen drainage. 61 Upware farm was part of Lord Aylesford's Wicken …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… with the abbey. Around it to the N. is a narrow drainage ditch of unknown date. Fig. 155 Wilbarston (10) Dam, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… green on Acton Lane as a group of buildings surrounded by drainage channels, presumably the remnants of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road in 1894. 1 Willesden is divided into two natural drainage areas, the south-east corner (Kilburn, Kensal Green, … In 1878 the board sued for an injunction prohibiting the drainage of any new building in Willesden parish into the … appointed a sewer committee which reported defective drainage but failed to take action and died in 1866. In 1871 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the Metropolitan sewerage system. 70 On the Tubbs estate drainage was diverted to the Brent at Stonebridge but less … was renamed Brentfield Road, proved costly because of drainage difficulties, and in 1920, after some 260 houses had …