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RefNoKBLC/2/9/5/72
AltRefNoS/B/SP482
TitlePetition of the Owners and Occupiers of Land in Chatteris, Doddington, Sutton, Mepal, Somersham, Pidley with Fenton, Warboys, Ramsey, Manea, Welney, [Little] Downham, Witcham, Wentworth, Witchford and Byall Fen
DescriptionPetition for permission to erect a pair of gates at Welches Dam, to prevent the waters of the Old Bedford River from flowing back into the Thirty Foot River. They also ask for the dams across the Twenty Foot Drain to be removed, and for the silting of the Old Bedford Bank to be completed. Sixty six signatories.
Date1751
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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