| Subject: |
Re: [milton-chat] 13th Public Drain |
| Author: |
Paul Oldham |
| Written: |
2010-08-10 18:57:50 |
On 10/08/10 00:43, Hazel Smith wrote:
> I have the maps if you would like to come and look at them ...
> 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.
So they weren't numbered sequentially then as 16, 17 and 18 lay between
1 and 13? I did take a wander around the 1:25K OS looking for other
labelled drains locally but 1 and 13 seem to be the only ones. There is
one west of the road to Impington but it's not numbered.
--
Paul