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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… year 1801, for the purpose of raising money towards the drainage and inclosure of the surrounding cars. Greenhill …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… were then taken to provide a piped water supply and a drainage system. 64 Since about 1900 Great Bowden has to a …
Great Haseley (Including Little Haseley, Latchford, Rycote)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… the elderly. 22 In the 1960s the parish still lacked mains drainage and (in some cases) mains water and electricity. … in 1897, when the roof was retiled and guttered, new drainage and heating systems were installed, and a new floor, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 5 a. of gravel and clay pits, to maintain its roads and drainage system. 84 The income from that Public Works land, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… site, producing very marshy ground. Various attempts at drainage both in antiquity and in recent times have resulted … are poorly preserved as a result of later ploughing and drainage-works but its general layout can be ascertained. The … ('f', 'g' and 'h' on plan) as well as a number of drainage ditches, low scarps and shallow quarries. Only one …
Survey of London
… first published in 1756. b The unsightly clutter of drainage pipes to be seen in Plate 48a reveals the changed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… there were repeated complaints about poor soil and worse drainage, about the increase in the parish rates since 1825, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… being almost exclusively pasture and grass-land. 37 Land drainage was becoming an urgent problem and there were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the costs of the 1831 census. The parish was rated for drainage costs known as rhyne work. 8 A house was built for a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a. 1 r. 10 p., whereof about 2000 acres form the Carr, the drainage of which has been a work of great labour and …