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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… acres of moss and moor have been reclaimed by extensive drainage; larch and Scotch fir have recently been planted on …
A History of the County of Oxford
… meadows were 'first rate', presumably reflecting drainage improvements. 116 Cattle and pigs were also raised: …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Records IR Inland Revenue Land Valuation Records LD Land Drainage Records LH Littlehampton Harbour Records M/PD …
A History of the County of Northampton
… ratepayers was sufficient to deter it from proceeding with drainage or water-supply schemes, even when pressed by the … The process was helped by improvements to water-supply and drainage in the 1950s, and the wider domestic use of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 1990. 48 The Bailiffscourt estate cottages also had main drainage in the 1930s. 49 There was a sewage works east of … 83. Ibid. 13319, deed, 1914. W.S.R.O., SP 1540, p. 5. Land Drainage Rec. of W. Suss. ed. D. Butler, p. 92; cf. 1 st Rep. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… by deep ditches up to 3 m. wide, presumably to improve drainage on the heavy land (Fig. 38). (RAF VAP CPE/UK 1925, …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI
… king's lions with wages of 6 d. a day, and the office of drainage of waters in Yorkshire. By p.s. [5036.] Et erat …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local landholders likely to benefit by the Thames Valley Drainage Board, with which Mair was involved, and although in … generally successful. The Harcourts undertook piecemeal drainage on several farms during the 1870s and 1880s, … heath around Cogges wood, and on Manor farm systematic drainage continued into the 1890s. In Cogges as elsewhere the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the land falls towards the valley of Whippington brook, drainage is to the upper part of Valley brook, which rises …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Bridge, where another low bank, on the E. side of a wide drainage channel, has the footings and rubble of a former …