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A History of the County of Somerset
… 12th century and then supplied the priory with water and drainage. 5 The ponds, equipped with a boat in 1540, 6 were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ground brought into use after the later 11th century by drainage works in and around Curry moor, at their greatest in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… County Times, 16 May 1885; see also 'Archimedes', Rep. on Drainage to Brentford local bd. (1881). F. Watt, 'Brentford …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 22 Activity was often delayed, however, by problems over drainage, caused partly by the London Clay and partly by the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… constructed beside the Brent in 1872. 6 Under Brentford's drainage and sewerage works, completed in 1884, sewage was … Mdx. (2nd edn. c. 1951), 148-9; Mdx. C.C. West Mdx. Main Drainage Scheme Inauguration (1936). M.R.O., D.R.O. 37/B1/2, …
A History of the County of Essex
… street gullies and polluting the river, but pro- posed drainage and sewerage schemes were rejected as too costly. A drainage system was in progress in 1900, and in 1904 the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… broad valley traversed by a great river which received the drainage of the existing river systems, both French and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gravel, which bears no obvious relation to the present drainage. In the Thame Basin flint pebbles have been brought … have been brought from the Midlands in early stages of the drainage system. Quartz sand and pebbles are available, … but again is often attributed to the early stages of the drainage system. (2) Glacial Deposits. These are among the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and incommodious place', 82 was perhaps more typical. Drainage was a constant problem, particularly on the northern …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… deepening of an original furrow at right angles to provide drainage into the ditch on the S.E. Remains of Broad-Ridge …