Catalogue description SURREY AND KENT COMMISSION OF SEWERS

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Title: SURREY AND KENT COMMISSION OF SEWERS
Description:

Administrative Papers
Date: 1569-1847
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers, 1554-1847
Physical description: 952 documents
Subjects:
  • Sewers
  • Drainage
Administrative / biographical background:

Letters Patent for this Commission were issued in 1554. Its minutes begin in 1570 and it was the earliest of the London Commissions to be established on an organised basis. The area of its jurisdiction - from East Molesey in Surrey to the River Ravensbourne - remained the same throughout the three centuries during which it functioned.
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