> I have the maps if you would like to come and look at them ... Thank you, Hazel. I'll mail you off-list about arranging a time next month. > Our 13th PD is actually drain 293 in the South Cambs numbering. > It formed the boundary between Milton and Chesterton in 1840. > Drains 16, 17 and 18 in the older Chesterton system were obliterated > when the sewage farm (as it was then) and the railway came along. That's very interesting. So presumably there were drains 1-12 at some point. My next question is: What exactly was a public drain? Liz