The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway winding through malarious...
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Wapping (redirect from Wapping-by-Thames)
failed. (See Embanking of the tidal Thames). The settlement developed along that river wall, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping...
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Albert Embankment (category Buildings and structures on the River Thames)
the former headquarters of the London Fire Brigade. In the Thames opposite is London's only river fire station, home to two fireboats. Embanking of the...
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Watermen's stairs (category History of the River Thames)
into the river, as they were often built adjacent to a public house. The embanking of the tidal Thames was a centuries-old process that lined the river...
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history of failed proposals to embank the Thames in central London. Embankments along the Thames were first proposed by Christopher Wren in the 1660s,...
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insufficient". Embanking of the tidal Thames History of malaria The illustration shows the male mosquito; the parasite is transmitted by the bite of the female...
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Limehouse Basin (category Geography of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Reach. It is visible in John Fairburn's map of May 7th, 1800; see Embanking of the tidal Thames#Isle of Dogs. 1819 Horwood/Fadden map. Faulkner 2002b...
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Construction of riverside buildings and structures often meant embanking the tidal Thames and acquiring riverbed ownership. The historical progression of so many...
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St Saviour's Dock (category Geography of the London Borough of Southwark)
embanking the riverside into a Priory Close spanning 140 acres of meadow and digging dykes. They turned the adjacent tidal inlet at the mouth of the River...
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Bermondsey (category Districts of London on the River Thames)
from the abbey began the development of the area, cultivating the land and embanking the riverside. They turned an adjacent tidal inlet at the mouth of the...
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Bermondsey Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Bermondsey)
began the development of the marshes surrounding the abbey, cultivating the land and embanking the riverside into a Priory Close spanning 140 acres of meadow...
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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1857. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held...
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River Brent (category Geography of the London Borough of Brent)
The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. 17.9 miles (28.8 km) in length, it rises in the...
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Improvement and Incumbered Estate Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. cxxvi) Burnham Tidal Harbour Act 1860 Metropolitan Market Act 1857 (20 Vict. c. cxxxv) Crystal...
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River Parrett (redirect from The River Parrett)
hills, the runoff from which forms rivers that originally meandered across the plain but have now been controlled by embanking and clyces. The area is...
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lxxxix) Kendal Fell Act 1767 (7 Geo. 3. c. 111 Pr.) Road from Kingston-upon-Thames to Leatherhead Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. xlvi) Dewsbury, Batley and Heckmondwike...
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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1863. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held...
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Railway Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. cxcii) Thames Haven, Dock and Railway Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. cviii) Thames Haven Dock and Railway Act 1842 (5 & 6...
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rivers that originally meandered across the plain but have now been controlled by embanking and "clyses" (the local name for a sluice). Although underlain...
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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1844. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held...
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c. 60 (I)) Duchy of Cornwall Management Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 49) Annuity Tax Abolition Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 50) Thames Embankment and Metropolis...
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Somerset Levels (category Levels in the United Kingdom)
hills, the runoff from which forms rivers that originally meandered across the plain but have now been controlled by embanking and clyses (the local name...
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