Reference
B590
Title
Letter (copy) from Humph. Brandreth to ? on the drainage of Houghton
Regis. The pond or moat he is filling up on the Green is his own
property, and is stagnant and noxious. If his correspondent's
tenant has used it to water his cattle it was a neighbourly act,
not a right.
The matter of the general drainage was gone into because 4 or 5 years
ago of a severe outbreak of typhus in the village, due, it was
thought, to the drainage, A parish meeting agreed to fill up
certain ponds or pools of stagnant water in different parts of the
village and to construct new drainage course.
Date free text
8 Jan 1852
Production date
From: 1852 To: 1852
Level of description
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