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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… in 1826 an urn containing human bones was discovered. Drainage work close to the river in 1849 produced much …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and riverside fields, often flooded and too level for easy drainage, produced poor hay. 33 Some 26 a. of grassland were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… part of the parish, which were too flat for easy drainage, kept them free from housing until the 20th century. …
Survey of London
… very marshy. Apparently insufficient care was given to the drainage of the site and the laying of the foundations of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… some 35 a. with a population of 425, became a special drainage district 85 and a disposal scheme was carried out c. … communications; below, econ. hist. (resort). The 1876 drainage dist. pop. was 425: below, public services. Windsor, … Shrews. Chron. 11 Apr. 1930, p. 2. S.R.O. 1642, box 27, drainage papers, C. Hicks to Timotheus Burd 19 Aug. 1856. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… until the 1860s when it was purchased by the Leadon drainage commissioners whose works involved a considerable …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Fens, it has a curiously un-English look. Owing to the drainage operations the soil is shrinking at the rate of 2 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… III, c. 109 and 1 & 2 Geo. IV, c. 23. Under the General Drainage Act of 1663 (15 Chas. II, c. 17) a certain amount of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… other outlets for disgruntled fenmen, though the later drainage schemes, culminating in the Acts of 1659 and 1663, … The 18th century, however, showed the material benefits of drainage, despite failures. 30 Even before the Civil War Ely … property and by public inspection of accounts. 37 The drainage of the South Level necessitated reallocation of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Ely who organized roads, bridges, and primitive drainage, 77 and who provided an educational ladder 78 for … 'learn'; Bishop Mawson (18th century) vigorously supported drainage schemes and the new turnpike road to Ely. ( Beauties … it is so named in many of the, documents relating to drainage schemes of that period. One was Bishop Northwold's …