Catalogue description Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement

Title of Act Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement Act 1852.

Description:

- Scheme to improve the River Nene from Northampton to Wisbech by new cuts, widening, construction of weirs or overfalls, and new bridges at Nene Quay, Wisbech, and the Dog-in-a-Doublet public house, Whittlesey.

Passing through the following parishes:

- Pitsford, Boughton, Chapel Brampton, Kingsthorpe, Dallington, St. Peter's and St. Sepulchre's, both in Northampton, Upton, Kislingbury, Wooten, Duston, All Saints and St. Giles, both in Northampton, Hardingstone, Abington, Great Houghton, Little Houghton, Weston Favell, Bradford on the Green, Little Billing, Great Billing, Ecton, Cookroe, Whiston, Wellingborough, Irchester, Irthlingborough, Rushden, Higham Ferrers, Chelveston sum Caldecote, Stanwick, Little Addington, Raunds, Ringstead, Great Addington, Woodford, Denford, Thrapston, Islip, Titchmarsh, Aldwinkle (All Saints and St. Peters), Achurch, (with the hamlet of Thorpe), Wodenhoe, Pilton, Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Stoke Doyle, Barnwell (All Saints and St. Andrews), Oundle, Palebrook (with hamlet of Armston), hamlet of Ashton in Oundle, Glapthorne, Elmington in Oundle, Cotterstock, Tansor, Southwich, Warmington, Fotheringhay, Nassington, Yarwell, Wansford, chapelry of Sutton in Castor cum Milton, hamlet of Ailesworth in Castor cum Milton, hamlet of Longthorpe in the parish of St. John the Baptist, Peterborough; all in the county of Northamptonshire. Elton, Sibson cum Stibbington, Water Newton, Chesterton, Alwalton, Orton Waterville, Orton Longville, Woodstone, Fletton, Standground; all in the county of Huntingdonshire. Whittlesey (St. Mary and St. Andrew), Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Mary), Leverington; all in the county of Cambridgeshire.

Comprising:

- Plans and sections 94 sheets, each 22 x 30.

- Book of reference.

- Printed summary of bill.

- Printed copy of standing orders of House of Lords as to the deposit of documents...relating to Private Bills.

Scale:

- Plan and sections: Horizontal 5 chains or 330 feet to 1 inch.

- Sections: Vertical 20 feet to 1 inch.

Engineer-in-chief James Meadows Rendel.

Acting Engineer William Radford.

Act 15 and 16 Victoria cap. cxxviii (1852).

Plan deposited 29 November 1851.