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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… black-cattle and sheep, having been much improved by the drainage of the heaths and morasses; oats and barley ripen in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1874, of which a quarter was absorbed by repaying a land drainage loan. 54By the 1880s it was again below £400. 55 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are sent to the London market. From the improvement in the drainage of the Fens, the air of the city, and indeed of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… bank. The latter hamlet derives its name from an important drainage station, which was built in 1830 and has the … coals (1½ bushel a family), and an unspecified amount in drainage and other taxes and repairs to the eighteen town …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of this potentially fertile land lay derelict from lack of drainage and sheer inaccessibility until the Second World … met the following day and threw down the Undertakers' drainage dikes. They did not hurt any man's person or goods. … were worth only 3 d. an acre, presumably owing to poor drainage. The occasion for this survey was probably the lease …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… as for softening bones, BRASS, Capital, for chasing, for drainage, for drilling, Italian, for making LACE and OPEN …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… inner or outer bank bounds an area of just under acre. A drainage ditch running N. to S. continues the line of the W. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Road and Morley Hill, with kerbed footpaths and full drainage. The estate, initially called 'New Enfield', was … taken to preserve trees, that the views were good, and the drainage was thorough. 14 Despite the provision of social …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… into the 'parish drain'. 54 The local board proposed a drainage system in 1854 and built a sewage works by 1857 but, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the 19th century the demand for piped water-supplies, main drainage, gas, and later electric lighting and steam heating, … and disturbed his privacy. The works interfered with his drainage and the smoke and gas from the foundry chimney with …