FN1347

A number of printed and handwritten papers relating to the Eau Brink Cut (from Eau Brink to Lynn).

1775 - 1825

From: 1775 To: 1825

Contains printed material ‘View of the Conduct of the Parties respecting the proposal of accommodation offered by The Merchants of Lynn, to promoters of the Bill for making a cut from Eau Brink to Lynn; and of the grounds on which the former continue their opposition to that Bill’, 1794; ‘A Bill to amend and enlarge the powers of the several Acts now in force, relative to the Drainage through the New River or Cut from Eau Brink to King’s Lynn in the County of Norfolk’, 1825; ‘Observations on the present state of the South Level of the Fens, with a proposed method, for the better drainage of that country, made by the desire of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Townsend, Master general of the Ordnance, and the Honourable the Corporation of Bedford Level. By Lieutenant Page (Now Sir Thomas Hyde Page) of the Corps of Engineers’, 1775; ‘The Claim of Taxing the Navigations and Free Lands for the drainage and preservation of the Fens, considered; Being the contents of a pamphlet first printed in 1778’, 1793; ‘Eau-Brink Cut. Opinions of different eminent Engineers upon the proposed Cut from Eau-Brink to Lynn, extracted from their reports or publications made at different periods’, [c.1790]; ‘Report upon the consequences which the New Cut from Eau-Brink, would be attended with to drainage, navigation, the harbour and town of Lynn. By Joseph Nickalls, Engineer’, 1793; ‘Experiments to ascertain the rise and fall of the tides, above and below Lynn’, 1793; ‘Eau Brink Cut Bill, The case of Mrs Susanna Palmer and John Franklin, esquire, as proprietors of the Navigation of part of the River Ouze [River Ouse], between St Ives in the county of Huntington, and the Town of Bedford; and of Mrs Palmer, as sole Propriotor of the Navigation of the River Lark or Mildenhall, from Bury St Edmunds to Worlington, in the county of Suffolk’, 1793 (2 copies); ‘Heads of a Bill for improving the drainage of the Middle and South Levels, part of the Great Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level, the Low Lands near to and adjoining said Levels; as also the Lands adjoining or near the River Ouse, in the county of Norfolk, draining through the same to sea by the harbour of King’s Lynn, in the said county; and for altering and improving the Navigation of the said River Ouze [River Ouse] from or near a places called Eau Brink, in the Parish of Wiggenhall Saint Mary’s, in the said county, to sea, through the said harbour of King’s Lynn’, 1793. Also handwritten ‘Minutes of proceedings and matters agreed on, by and between Sir Thomas Hyde Page of the Royal Engineers for and on behalf of the Mayor, Corporation and inhabitants of Lynn on the one part and Mr Mylne, Civil Engineer, for and on behalf of the Delegates appointed by and acting for the Committee of Land Owners and other persons interested in the drainage of the Fens and Inland Navigation between Lynn, Cambridge and other places of the other part’, 1795; copy of minutes of meetings held in Newmarket and Wisbech with delegates from Eau Brink Committee and Lynn, 1794.

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Great Ouse river navigation, River Ouse, Fens, Eau Brink, Lynn, Bedford Levels, DRAINAGE