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can in any sense material to the present purpose be said to be near, are
the 2 or 3 Cottages & the public House, (the sign of the Falcon kept by
Death:) Of these the rents can be but trifling: but be they what they may, I
am perfectly ready to include them in the purchase.

The premises are almost entirely separated from all other land by
roads, & what is wanting to make the separation perfect, I am ready to
supply. On the South side where the rising ground is (on which the
buildings would be erected) they are bounded perfectly by the great road
from London to Wandsworth. On the West side, they are also perfectly
bounded (setting the Cottages out of the question) by another Road leading
down from the great road to the river. On the North, they are
bounded completely by the road which runs parallel to the River, (the
road from Battersea to Wandsworth) on the other side of which road
are the Distiller's establishment & other houses: but from these houses
the Penitentiary House would be distant the whole length of the
premises, being upwards of half a mile. Over this part of the road is
thrown the scarce perceptibly rising Bridge called 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 buildings belonging to the Distillery, & reaching to the River
On the East side the premises are bounded (setting aside the above mentoned
Public House at the South East corner) for about half their
length by the Brook above-mentioned, which after crossing the great
road under a Bridge as unconspicuous as York Bridge, comes out by
the side of the Public House & forms a boundary to the road, under the

Identifier: | JB/541/420/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	420	Info in main headings field
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