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RefNoKBLC/2/9/20/7
AltRefNoS/B/SP1804/1
TitleMemorial of Certain Owners and Occupiers of Land Draining into the River Ouse above Hermitage Suspension Bridge
DescriptionThe memorialists report that enlarging the channel of the Hundred Foot River has not improved the discharge of upland floodwaters (see Ref S/B/SP1768). They ask for Seven Holes Sluice at Earith to be opened whenever the River Ouse reaches the height of the Cradge Bank. They also ask for Cradge Bank above Mepal to be reduced to its original height. Thirty nine signatories. Two copies.
DateWhitsun 1860
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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