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A History of the County of Essex
… Committees were set up for finance, highways and drainage, public health and sanitation, improvement and … the vestry resolved to attempt to improve water supply, drainage, and unfit housing. In 1866 a vestry committee, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by 1765, but the extra land had been acquired by improved drainage in the south part of the leys not by further … due to 'continual mowing and inadequate manuring'. 85 Drainage was a constant problem, but little seems to have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… may have been between Upper and Lower Wolvercote where a drainage ditch or ditches ran south from Wolvercote Leys to … deepened by the Thames Conservancy and the Thames Valley Drainage Commissioners in 1884 and 1885. The road to Wytham … Upper Wolvercote in 1913, mains water before 1919, mains drainage c. 1920, and electricity by 1923. Despite several …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… also tiles, quarries, white bricks, fire bricks, and land drainage pipes from fireclay. 85 The company got fireclay …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the district generally lacked proper sewerage and drainage and were often badly designed and built and in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… population. The remains have been much damaged by drainage and quarrying, but recognizable earthworks still …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the corporation was responsible for water supply, drainage, sanitation, sewage disposal, highway and street … and dealt with planning matters, street cleaning, drainage, and repair, precautions against infectious … for the streets to be watered in summer. 82 Lack of main drainage and the pollution of the river were causing concern …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… at river level and the channels serve a real need for drainage. Some may have originated before the Reformation as …
A History of the County of Somerset
… that even this slightly higher ground had problems with drainage. 2 The main village street runs east - west and … flood walls. There was continual anxiety over flooding and drainage even on the arable land, and in 1735 tenants were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… coastal erosion (by the erection of groynes) 5 and drainage. A third continuing problem, that of seaweed being …