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A History of the County of Gloucester
… drove adits or levels upwards on hillsides to assist drainage and the removal of coal. Drains were occasionally … to decline as rising costs, reflecting particularly drainage problems, led to the closure of most mines. Of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a resolution of the Flaxley parish vestry in 1869 a drainage authority was appointed for the Flaxley Meend … acquired greater powers there. 44 The Flaxley Meend drainage authority, despite the wish of the Flaxley vestry to … 45 remained in existence until 1884. 46 An underground drainage and sewerage system built for Cinderford and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… it was not found possible to study the history of the drainage of the fens and its influence upon the landscape. In …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… in 1832 as an unwholesome nuisance and a hindrance to drainage, 29 and it was culverted in 1858. 30 That part of … Map 1/2,500, Yorks. CCX. 8, 12 (1893 edn.). During the drainage works of that period parts of the former ditch were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… is a gap near the S. end, caused by quarrying and a modern drainage ditch, it is likely to have once been continuous. … barrows, but two at least are probably hut circles. Modern drainage ditches have confirmed the crop-marks, and one sherd …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… improvement, notably in the use of machinery and land drainage. 66 The nature of the soil in a parish where meadow …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ran along the River Cam west of the line of the canal, and drainage works have reduced the smaller streams to ditches. 5 … of the high proportion of salt in the clay. 46 The good drainage provided by the gravel brought early settlement to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… land. 51 These activities may have been connected with the drainage of their site or with their fisheries. Even though …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… was created such by an act of parliament in 1812, when the drainage of about 14,000 acres in Wildmore Fen, and in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was fenland until between 1806 and 1812, when a system of drainage channels, still existing in the 1990s, was created. … Hay Street. From the 1950s, following the arrival of mains drainage, the village was subjected to intensive devel … Epidemics of typhoid in 1886-7 had been ascribed to poor drainage and infected water from wells. 72 In 1885 the …