Fen Drainage. Act 1775

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1775 c. 65
Year1775
Anno Regni G E O R G I I III. Decimo Quinto. An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands, Low Grounds, and Commons, in the several Parishes ofRamsey, Bury, Wistow, Warboys, Somersham, Colne and Pidley with Fenton , in the County of Huntingdon , and in the Parishes of Chatteris and Doddington , within the Isle of Ely , in the County of Cambridge .

(15 Geo. 3) C A P. LXV.

'WHEREAS there are in the County ofHuntingdon , and in the Isle of Ely , and County of , certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds herein after particularly described, containing, by Estimation, five thousand eight hundred Acres, or thereabouts, which, by reason of their low Situation, and the Decay of their Banks, are overflowed with Water: And whereas there are also certain other Fen Lands and Low Ground in the several Parishes ofRamsey, Bury, Wistow, Warboys, Somersham, Colne , and Pidley with Fenton , in the said County of Huntingdon , and Chatteris and Doddington in the said Isle of Ely , and County of Cambridge herein after particularly described, containing, by Estimation, nine thousand one hundred Acres, or thereabouts, and which, together with other Lands, are already comprised in a certain Act, made in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the several Parishes of Sutton, Mepal, Witcham, Chatteris, Doddington, and a Place called Byal Fen, in the Isle of Ely, and County of Cambridge, and also in the Parishes of Somersham and Pidley with Fenton, in the County of Huntingdon; and also in another Act, made in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the several Parishes of Ramsey, Bury, Wistow, Warboys, Farcett, Standground, and Water Newton, in the County of Huntingdon, and of Doddington in the Isle of Ely, and County of Cambridge; and also in another Act, made in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands, Low Grounds, and Commons, in the Parishes of Chatteris and Doddington in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge; and also in another Act, made in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the Parishes of Somersham and Pidley with Fenton, and the Parish of Colne, in the County of Huntingdon: And whereas the said Acts have been found insufficient for effectually draining and preserving the said last-recited Fen Lands and Low Grounds: And whereas all the said Fen Lands and Low Grounds are abutted and bounded as follows: that is to say, Beginningat the South Bank ofthe Forty Foot River, and from thence along by the Side of the Outring Ditch of a Piece of Ground of the Heirs of William Chandler , which divides that and a muchwood Part called A Thistle Green Lot , and from thence to the Farm-yard of William Fellowes Esquire, now in the Occupation of Abraham Staffurth ; and from thence along the Skirts of the High Lands belonging to the said Farm; and from thence along the Skirts of the High Lands of Worlick Farm ; and from thence along by the Skirts of the High Lands of another Farm of the said William Fellowes , in the Tenure or Occupation of William Brown ; and from thence along by the Skirts of the High Lands of one other Farm of the said William Fellowes , now in the Occupation of Henry Brown ; and from thence along the Skirts of the High Lands adjoining to certain Fen Grounds called The Hollow Head ; and from thence along the High Land Skirts of a Ground called The Oak Tree Ground , to the Skirts of the High Lands of Peter Brighty Gentleman, to the Outring Ditch that divides the Parishes of Ramsey and Bury to the Outring Dike of a Bury Fen Lot belonging to Richard Batson , which divides that Lot from a Lot belonging to the Heirs of John Poulter Yeoman, to a certain Drove called Long Drove , and across the said Drove to the Outring Dike of a Lot of the Reverend Master Hodson , which divides a Lot of the said John Poulter's Heirs and a Lot of Ann Sibley Widow, to the Outring Dike of the Heirs of Jonathan Nicholls , and along the said Dike to the North End of a Piece of Land called The Willow Row , belonging to the Heirs of the said John Poulter , and along the East and South Dike of the said Willow Row to a Drove called Jack's Corner Drove , and along the said Drove to a twenty Acre Piece of Sir Rober Bernard Baronet, and along the Division Dike which divides a Lot of William Gosling junior and a Lot of the said Sir Robert Bernard to a Division Dike which in Part divides the said twenty Acres and Vicar's Closes , and thence across a Drain which in Part divides the said Vicar's Closes and Jack's Corner , the Lands of the said Sir Robert Bernard , to a Dike which divides the High Lands of the said Vicar's Closes from the fenny Parts thereof, to a Wistow Fen Lot , called Durrant's Lot ; from thence to a Drove called Durrant's Drove to William Fen Long Drove ; and from thence to Wistow Stray Pasture Drove , and along the same to William Stray Pasture and along the High Land Skirts thereof, to a Division Dike which divides the Parish of Warboys and the said William Stray Pasture and the Land Skirts of Warboys Stray Pasture , next the fenny Parts thereof, to the Outring Dike of the said Stray Pasture, which divides that and the Common called Old Stray Pasture ; and from thence along the Skirts of the High Land of the said Common Stray Pasture , to Warboys Cow Common , and along the High Land Skirts thereof to Northen Ware ; and from thence still along the High Land Skirts of the said Common to Chappel Head ; and from thence along the Skirts of the High Lands to a certain Hill near Wilthorn Ware ; and from thence to the High Lands next Fenton Load near Pagitt's Closes , and across the said Fenton Load , and by and along the North-east Side of Pagitt's Closes to Fenton Green , and across Fenton Green to Fenton Meadow , and along the North-east Side thereof to Fenton Drove , and across the same to Pidley Meadow , and along the North Side thereof to Pidley Drove , and across the said Drove to a Ground late Cope's , now in the Occupation of Widow Barnes ; and from thence along the North and East Sides of the said Ground to the Ground of Edward Holder , and along the East Side thereof to two Closes of John Ibbotts ; from thence along the East and South Sides thereof to the Bottom of Fern Hill to Somersham Low Wood Corner ; and from thence along the said Wood to College Closes ; and from thence to the South Side of a certain Place called Little Land Floods to a certain Place called Somersham Meadow Dike , and by and along Somersham Meadow Dike to a certain Drove called Rumball's Drove , and across the same to the Lands of Thomas Day Esquire; and from thence to a certain Ditch called Slyer's Ditch ; and from thence to a Place called Parkhill Lot Side ; and from thence between the Lands of John Leeds and James Mason , lying on the West Side of Long Drove , and from thence to the Lands of Thomas Want and John Thompson Esquires; and from thence to the Lands of Jane Leeds Widow; and from thence by Long Drove to a certain Place called Cross Lakes ; from thence to Cross Drove , and across the same to certain High Lands of Thomas Day Esquire, by the Skirts of the same, round the fenny Parts thereof, to the Low Lands of the said Thomas Day ; and from thence to the Lands of Bartholomew Ibbott ; and from thence to a Lot of John Rumball Leeds , and across the Drove to other Lands of the said John Rumball Leeds and James Mason to the Somersham Turnpike Road, and across the same to the Dike which divides the Land called The West Water and the said Road, and along the same Ditch to Chatteris Ferry , the House of William Grant ; and from thence by and along the High Land Skirts of Key's Farm ; and from thence by the Skirts of the High Land in Chatteris Acre Fen to Pincham's Holt ; and from thence along the High Land Skirts of Chatteris Common to Hunnesham Ford ; from thence to the South-east Corner of a Piece of Land in Westmoor , the Property of Ann Moule , late Doyley's ; and from thence by and along the Outring Ditch that divides certain Lands in Westmoor aforesaid and a certain Part of Chatteris Common called Undorwilly , to the Skirts of Badney Hill ; and from thence across the Turnpike Road, and along by the Skirts of the High Land in Curf Common to Wimblington Leam near Slade Load ; and from thence along by the Skirts of the High Land of certain Parts of Chatteris Common called Under Northey ; and from thence round the Skirts of the High Land in Birch Fen and Campole ; and from thence by the Skirts of the High Land on the West Side of Langwood Hill , and by the Skirts of a certain Piece of High Land of Joseph James to The forty Foot Bank , and along the same Bank on the South Side of the said River to Carter's Bridge ; and from thence still along the same Bank on the South Side of the forty Foot Rivet , to The forty Foot Bridge , in the Parish of Ramsey aforesaid: And whereas all the said Fen Lands and Low Grounds, so described as aforesaid, cannot be sufficiently drained by the Means now used for draining the same;' may it therefore please your Majesty, That it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said Acts, made in the twenty-second, thirty-first, and thirty-second Years of the Reign of his Majesty KingGeorge the Second, as in any-wise relates to the several Fen Lands and Low Grounds herein-before described; and so much of the said Act, made in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King G...

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