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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
water course, 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, when 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 Cottages
& the Public House) it is only about 1/8 part of its circuit that the land
wants of being compleatly insulated & bounded by roads. Would Your
Lordship wish that the insulation should be compleat, in order 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 proportionally
perfect? I will build across 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: & in that direction if there should be any part which
it 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 & the Cottages, Your
Lordship may well imagine that I should be glad enough to include
them in the purchase, & you will I suppose be of opinion, that
for

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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