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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 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 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 H. of Commons Report of
1784) included in the purchase.

Your Lordship then will observe that (setting aside the Cottages
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 the separation of the premises from the other part of the
fields (which I suppose are all equally your Lordship's property) may
be

Identifier: | JB/541/442/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	442	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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