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A History of the County of Essex
… water pent up for Sir Bernard Whetstone's mill flooded the highway. 24 By 1635 the mill had been taken down and in 1641 …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish, was then only a track. It seems to have been the highway in the forest from London to Epping Heath mentioned … in 1872. 98 The 'upper road', being neither the main highway from London nor an important parish thoroughfare, … with the Epping New Road, begun by the Epping and Ongar highway trust in 1834, provided a high-class turnpike road …
A History of the County of Essex
… presented in courts leet for failing to repair sections of highway, but the main responsibility for the upkeep of roads rested with the vestry. Highway rates rarely seem to have been levied until the later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the White House. 53 Chaucer's Lane was probably 'the highway next to late Chaucer's place' in 1470. 54 The name …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the rural sanitary authority and in Wootton district highway board were transferred to the new corporation; its … for water supply, drainage, sanitation, sewage disposal, highway and street maintenance, public lighting, and public … 42 but the vestry, supervised by the Wootton district highway board, retained oversight of the streets and in 1881 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at the manor court for throwing shrimps' heads in the highway. 10 The fishery at Aluredston in 1086 may have been …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… that upper and lower Woolaston were not rated together for highway purposes. 83 Overseers' accounts run from 1713 to …