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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… The relief varies between 90 ft. and 200 ft. with drainage W. to the Ouse. The soil for the most part is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… gault clay with the River Rhee immediately to the S. Later drainage channels and thick under-growth make the lay-out …
Survey of London
… increase. Without the embankment of the riverside and the drainage of the inland areas the value of the estate could …
Survey of London
… Water Pumping Station, Stewart Street The lack of adequate drainage on the Isle of Dogs and the consequent flooding of …
Cuxham
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… streams supports meadow and pasture, though before modern drainage much of the land there was marshy. 13 The parish's … the only farmers based in the parish. Thereafter further drainage was carried out, milk cows were replaced by beef … Coll., Cuxham drawer, item 11, no. 13 (mid 19th-century drainage). Geol. Surv. Map 1:50000 (solid and drift), sheets …
A History of the County of Essex
… its tenants to discharge their responsibilities for land drainage. More effective, however, were the government … commissioners had increased to 565 a. 102 Under the Land Drainage Act (1930) Dagenham Level came under the control of … to houses. This was expected to take five years. 267 A drainage scheme for Dagenham village was carried out in …
A History of the County of Essex
… End, in east Dagenham and then London Clay. Natural drainage is provided by the Beam River, which forms part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… dell, and, meeting with the stream of water from the drainage of the collieries at Fordel, is precipitated in its … chemical and dyeing operations runs into the waters; the drainage of lime manure from contiguous lands; and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for draining, and partly by persons who are free from drainage expenses by the nature of their tenures; all the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… another William Wyndham, installed an extensive land drainage system. 29 The foxhunting activities of the family … 352. Ibid., 181 V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 90; W.R.O. 135, Plan of Drainage System. V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 372. Gent. Mag. 1795, 997. …