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TitleFolder containing: Bedford Level Drainage Amendment (Division of Commons) Act, 1685 (Collection of Colonel Louis Tebbutt); Swaffham and Bottisham Drainage Act, 1819; Land Drainage (Ouse) Provisional Order Confirmation Act, 1920; Local railway Acts (14 items), 1837-1915.
DescriptionLocal railway acts comprise, in rough date sequence: 1. amendment and enlargement of powers and provisions of Eastern Counties Railway, 1838 (including items 3-8 concerning lands of Lord Petre); 2. Eastern Counties Railway Brandon and Peterborough extension, 1844; 3. Midland Railways, Syston to Peterborough (including book of reference pp. 22-33 extending to parish of Fletton), 1845; 4.-5. Ely and Huntingdon Railway, 1845 (two different copies, one annotated as 'Reprinted copy'); 6. Lynn and Ely Railway, 1845; 7. Deviation of Lynn and Ely Railway to form a dock at King's Lynn, 1847; 8.-9. Wisbech, St Ives and Cambridge Junction Railway, 1846 (two different copies); 10. Boston, Stamford and Birmingham Railway, Stamford to Wisbech, 1846; 11. Eastern Counties Railway, Wisbech to Spalding, 1847 (not constructed); 12. Boston, Stamford and Birmingham Railway, Peterborough to Thorney [Wisbech-Sutton Bridge-Sutton St Mary], 1847; 13. Eastern Counties Railway and other companies amalgamation [to form Great Eastern Railway], 1868; 14. Great Eastern Railway for 'conferring further powers' and extending completion and purchase times (Cambridgeshire property on pp.25-26), 1915
Date1685-1920
CreatorNameGreat Ouse River Division and predecessor authorities
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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