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in the Maps York Bridge, under which runs the Brook; which after at first
bounding, but in the lower part of its course passing through the premises,
empties itself into the Thames, washing after it has passed under the
Bridge a range of building belonging to the Distillery and reaching to the
River. On the East side the premises are bounded (setting aside the
abovementioned Public-House at the South East corner) for about half
their length by the brook abovementioned, which after crossing the great
road under a Bridge as conspicuous as York Bridge, comes out by the
Public House and forms a boundary to the road, under the appearance of a
ditch, till the road, as you pass along it from the Public-House, takes a
pretty sudden turn to the right: at which place this watercourse, or at least
a branch of it, quits the road to enter the grounds (which are here meadow
land) through which it runs till it meets with the great northern road
from Battersea to Wandsworth at York-Bridge. It is to be observed that
this Watercourse, where it enters the grounds, does not form the boundary of
the premises: the land on both sides of it being (with the apparent view of
making the Canal spoken of in the House of Commons Report of 1784)
included in the purchase.
Your Lordship then will observe that (setting aside
the Cattages and the Public-House) it is only about 1/8 part of its circuit that
the land wants of being compleatly insulated and bounded by roads. Would
Your Lordship wish that the insulation should be compleat, in order that
that the separation of the premises from the other part of the fields (which
I suppose are all equally your Lordship's property) may be proportionably
perfect? I will build across what what may be termed the peninsula
at my own expence a Wall, of which, unless it should appear more eligible
to carry a road on the other side of it, Your Lordship's Tenants shall have the
use: and in that direction if there should be any part which may appear
eligible to your Lordship to have detached from the rest in order to form the
more convenient boundary, I shall be ready in that view, if the price comes
within my reach, to purchase on as far as your Lordship pleases. As to the
Public House and Cottages, your Lordship may well imagine that I should
be glad enough to include them in the purchase, and you will I suppose be
of opinion, that for the sake of the public, it will be but fitting they should
be so included. The compulsory powers of the Act being general, and
excluding
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