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RefNoKBLC/2/9/3/14
AltRefNoS/B/SP240
TitlePetition of the Inhabitants of Welney
DescriptionThe petitioners represent that their lands between Manea and Salter's Lode have been flooded, especially since Thomas Carter took up the claw [sluice] at Welches Dam. They ask for the Sixteen Foot Drain to be scoured, and for a new sluice to be built between Well Creek and the Sixteen Foot Drain. They also ask for the Forty Foot Drain to be drained into the [Old] Bedford River, and for a drain to be made between the lower end of Sixteen Foot Drain and the Counterwash Drain. Eighteen signatories.
Date09 April 1706
CreatorNameBedford Level Corporation
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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