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RefNoKBLC/2/9/3/109
AltRefNoS/B/SP334
TitlePetition of the Owners and Occupiers of Lands in the Several Towns of Whittlesey, Eastrea, Coates, Ramsey, Farcet, Yaxley, Holme, March, Benwick, Upwell and Outwell
DescriptionPetition against an experimental dam which has been built across the Forty Foot Drain, to turn the waters down the River Nene. They ask for it to be removed, as it is causing their lands in the upper part of the Middle Level to flood. Two hundred and three signatories.
Date19 February 1712
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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