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London, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

WANDLE SEWERAGE AND WATER !
COMPANY.
or the CONSERVATION of the RIVER WANDLE, and for the
DRAINAGE of the TOWNS and VILLAGES lying between
CROYDON and the THAMES, and for SUPPLYING WATER to
the METROPOLIS SOUTH of the THAMES, and PLACES AD-
JACENT, at CONSTANT and HIGH SERVICE.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to incorporate
a company for the purpose of providing a new sewage outfall for the I
town of Croydon, and for the sewage of the several towns, parishes,
hamlets, villages, districts, and other places lying between Croydon
and the Thames, and for collecting, filtering, and storing the waters
of the River Wandle and its tributaries (when freed from impurities)
for the supply of the inhabitants of the metropolissouth of the Thames,
at constant and high service ; with power to raise the capital re-
quired for the purposes of such company, and also to borrow certain
sums of money in manner to be provided by the said intended act,
and all other usual and necessary powers;—And that, for the pur-
poses of providing for such sewage outfall as aforesaid, it is proposed
to enable the said company to construct and maintain the several
works following, or some of them, that is to say, a subter-
ranean main sewer or drain commencing in the parish of
Croydon, otherwise St. James's Croydon, in the countyten i of,
Surrey. upon or near to a piece of ground and building be k g
known
to the Local Board of Health of Croydon, and called or
Filter
House," the " Filter" or " Filter House," or " Sewage t
pits,r
House," by a junction with certain pipes,
cesspools, and other works belonging to the said Leurnaidurtsoitnardthoe
Health of Croydon, and passing from, in, through, o w
parishes, villages, hamlets, districts, and places of Beddington, a -
lington, Mitcham, Tooting, Streatham, Wimbledon, Wandsworth, or
some of them, and terminating by a junction with the river Wandle,
at or near to the work or mill called or known as the " Lower Mill"
or " Tide Mill," and at the north side thereof in the parish of Wands-
worth, otherwise All Saints Wandsworth; also an outfall sewer for
the sewerage of the high level districts commencing by a junction
with the said main or trunk sewer at a point about 950 yards to the
north of Mitcham Church, and terminating by a junction with a cer-
tain sewer, culvert, or drain, proposed to be constructed by the Metro-
politan Commissioners of Sewers for the high level main drainage of
the Surrey and Kent districts, at or near the junction of the Union-
road with Clapham-rise in the parish of Clapham. Also an outfall
sewer for the low level districts commencing by a junction with the
said main or trunk sewer at a point on or about the north end of
Ram Lane,
in the parish of Wandsworth, otherwise All Saints, Wands-
worth; and terminating at a point in the " York Road," in the
parish of Battersea, at or near to the watercourse, cut, or creek,
called or known as " Battersea Creek," by a junction with the low
level main sewer proposed to be constructed by the Metropolitan
Commissioners of Sewers for the Surrey and Kent Drainage ; Also
a branch sewer or drain commencing at or near to a point opposite,
or nearly opposite, to Waddon Court Farm Buildings, in the ham-
let ofWaddon, parish of Croydon, otherwise St. James's, Croydon:
Another branch sewer or drain commencing at Beddington, with
la
branch thereto, commencing at or near to Beddington Snuff Mill, in
the parish of Beddingtoa aforesaid ; Another branch, sewer, or
commencing at upon or near to the road from Carshalton to Mitcham,
and opposite, or nearly opposite to Carshalton House,
the parish
of Carshalton, with a branch therefrom, commencing at Wallington
Another
Mill, in the hamlet of Wallington, parish of Beddington,
branch sewer or drain commencing on or near to the last-mentioned
road, near Carshalton House, in the parish of Carshalton, with three
branch sewers or drains connected therewith, one commencing at or
near to Hack Bridge Green, another at or near to Hack Bridge Mills,
both in the hamlet of Wallington, parish of Beddington, and a third
in the said parish of Carshatton, upon or near to the road from
Wallington to Carshalton Snuff Mill; Another branch sewer or
drain commencing at or near to certain premises in the parish
of Carshalton, belonging to Samuel Gurney, junior, and now or
lately in the occupation of Herbert Jenner ;—Another branch sewer
or drain commencing at or near to certain buildings on or near to
the river Wandle, in the hamlet of Wallington, parish of Beddington,
also belonging to Samuel Gurney, junior, aforesaid ;—Another branch
sewer or drain commencing at or near to the mills and other works
on the river Wandle, at or near to Beddington Corner, in the parish
of Carshalton, with a branch therefrom, terminating in or upon
certain grass land, near to the tan or skin works, is the occupation
of William Mcßea;—another branch sewer or drain commencing at
or near to the drug mills and ether works in the parish of Mitcham,
near the river Wandle, and about 300 yards below Beddington-corner;
Another branch sewer or drain commencing at or near to the felt
works, and flour mills, in the parish of Mitcham, now or lately in tile
occupation of Messrs, Ashby and others ; Another branch sewer or
drain commencing at, upon, or near to land, in the parish of Mitcham,
now or lately in the occupation of James Weston ; Another branch
sewer or drain commencing at or near to the medical herb distillery,
lately in the occupation of James Moore, deceased ;—Another
branch sewer or drain commencing at or near to a point on the road
opposite the print works at Phipp's-bridge, in the parish of Mitcham,
now or lately in the occupation of Messrs, Welch, Margetson, and
Co., with a branch therefrom terminating at upon or near to certain
madder pits and other premises, at the Merton Abbey print works,
in the parish of Merton, now or lately in the occupation of Mrs.
Mary Ann Littler ;—Another branch sewer or drain commencing at
or near to the " Copper Mills," in the parish of Wimbledon, now or
lately in the occupation of Edmund Pontifex and others ;—Another
branch sewer or drain, commencing at or near to the printing works
on the River Wandle, in the parish of Wimbledon, and about 500
yards below the "Copper Mills" or works above described ;—Another
branch sewer ore rain commencing at or near to a certain building
or erection, or establishment, called or known as Addiscombe
House, or School, or College, in the parish of Croydon, with a
branch thereto, commencing at or near to certain premises in
the parish of Croydon now or lately in the occupation of William
Goldsmith ;—Another branch sewer or drain, commencing at or
near to the Garrett Oil Mills on the River Wandle, in the parish of
Wandsworth ; another branch sewer or drain, commencing at or
near to certain colour works or colour manufactory, in the parish of
Wandsworth, now or lately in the occupation of Thomas Townsend ;
another branch sewer or drain commencing at or upon a certain
yard or place for slaughtering horses, in the parish of Wands-
worth, now or lately in the occupation of Edward Wallis ; another
branch sewer or drain, commencing at on or near to the Wandsworth
Paper Mills, in the parish of Wandsworth ; also a sewer, drain, or
culvert commencing at or near to a point on the road from Mitcham
to Morden, otherwise Mordon, and near unto a cottage and
garden now or lately in the occupation of Mrs. Eliza Ness, in
the parish of Mitcham, and continuing thence on, upon or along
the road to Morden, and terminating at or near to the " Double
Gate" tell-house, in the parish of Merton or otherwise Saint Mary
Merton, by a junction with a sewer recently constructed by the
Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers at or about that point, to-
gether wi h the following branch sewers or drains thereto, commen-
cing tespectively, as follows :—I st. In the parish of Mitcham, at or
near to Ravensbury Manor House. 2d. In the parish of Morden,
at or near to certain cottages situate about 150 yards to the north-east
of the Morden Snuff Mills or Teddy's Snuff Mills. Also another sewer
or drain or culvert;commencing at or near to the entrance or gateway
of Merton Abbey print works, and terminating by a junction with the
sewer in the London and Epsom turnpike road lately constructed by the
Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, and which sewer or drain at
present terminates on the east side of the river Wandie at Merton, in
the parish of Merton, Wimbledon, or Mitcham, or one of them;—Also a
sewer, culvert or drain commencing at or near to the turnpike road from
London to Epsom, in the parish of Wimbledon, or Merton, at or near to
the junett es of Haydon's-lane with the turnpike road aforesaid, and
thence passing OR, upon, under, or through Hayden's-lane in the
pariah of Wimbledon, along Dunsford-road so High-street, in Wands-
worth, and terminating by a junction with the trunk sewer at or
near a point between South-street and Ram-lane, Wandsworth, in
the parish of Wandsworth aforesaid; together ith all such addi-
tional sewers and drains, conduits, pits, and other works as may be
necessary for more effectually carrying out the objects of the said
intended undertaking, and excluding all sallage, sewer matters, and
other impurities from the waters of the River Wandle and its tribu-
taries and feeders.
And also, for the purpose of returning to the said river Wandle,
in the upper part thereof, a volume of clean water equal to the
amount of foul water which may be abstracted by the said proposed
sewers to construct and maintain a water compensation main cut, con-
duit, aqueduct or pipe track, or pipe, to be laid alongside the main
sewer and branches above described, or a part thereof with all pro-
per engines, pipes, works, and other conveniences from and between
a point on the River Wandle, at or near the mill in the parish of
Wandsworth, or All Saints Wandsworth, called " The Upper Mill,"
above described, and another point on the same river, at or Near the
water, or place called " Wadden Mill Head," in the hamlet of
Wadden, in the parish of Croydon, otherwise St. James Croydon,
with branches therefrom to be laid alongside of the trunk and
branch sewers above described, and to terminate in the said River
Wandle, as follows respectively: I, at or near to a certain work
or snuff mill in the occupation of Robert Ansell, in the parish
of Carshalton. 2. At or near to Beddington Corner, in the parish
of Beddington. 3. At or near to Phipps' Bridge, in the parish
or Mitcham ; and 4. At the south side of the Garrett " Copper
Mills," in the occupation of Edmund Pontifex and others, in the
parish of Wimbledon. and which several main sewers or drains,
and branch sewers or drains, and water compensation main, and
the said several works in connection threwith, will pass from, in,
through, or into the parishes and extra-parochial and other places
following, or some of them, in the said county of Surrey : that is to
say: Croydon, otherwise Saint John the Baptist, Croydon ; Saint
James, Saint John, Saint Peter, and All Saints, Croydon; Wadden;
Beddington, otherwise Saint Mary Beddington ; Wallington, other-
wise Whaleton ; Carshalton, otherwise Saint Peter, Carshalton;
Mordon, Morden, otherwise Saint Lawrence, Mordon ; Mitcham,
Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Mitcham ; Merton, otherwise Saint
Mary, Merton ; Tooting, otherwise Lower Tooting ; Tooting Gra-
veney, otherwise Saint Nicholas, Tooting-Graveney ; Streatham
otherwise Saint Leonard, Streatham ; Wimbledon, otherwise Wim-
bleden, or Saint Mary, Wimbledon ; Wandsworth, otherwise All
Saints, Wandsworth ; Battersea, otherwise Saint Mary, Battersea;
and Clapham, otherwise Holy Trinity, Clapham.
Also within any of the parishes, and extra-parochial and other
places last mentioned, or any of them within
which
the said sewers
or drains, and branch sewers or drains, are intended to be made, to
alter and divert, or remove or replace all
privies
some of the existing
drains, sewers and water-courses, and flowing or emptying
themselves into the said river Wandle, or tributaries thereof, and to
river
cleanse the Wandle, and its feeders or tributaries, or parts
thereof, from weeds and other matters, from time time, and to
prohibit the making and erection therein of anyks,futuzelenwers, drains,
water-closets, privies, or other matters or works, might flow
or empty themselves into the said river or tributaries and also to
remove the several fords and wash-places on the said river and tri-
butaries, in the parishes and extra-parochial or other places lastly
described, and to erect and construct other works and convenience's
in lieu thereof, and also to prevent the further washing of she;
horses, and other animals in the said river Wandle and its tributaries.,
Also to construct and maintain within the parishes and extra-
parochial and other places last described, such works as may be con-
sidered necessary for intercepting and conducting into the said seve-
ral intended sewers, drains, and works connected therewith, all such
matters as now flow into any existing sewers or drains, or into the said
river Wandle, or tributaries thereof, which are calculated to render
impure or offensive the waters thereof, and such other sewers,
drains, and works within the said parishes and places as may be
necessary for collecting and using the sullage, sewerage water, and
other matters not flowing into the said river Wandle and tributaries
thereof, or which may hereafter flow into such intended sewers or
drains, and works connected therewith, and for that purpose to break
and open up, and again to restore the roads, streets, highways, lanes,
courts, ways, and passages, and other places within the several
parishes, and extra-parochial and other places last described, and
also to make arrangements and agreements with the Local Board of
Health of Croydon, in regard to the said sullage and other works, as
may be necessary for the purposes of the said undertaking.
And it is also proposed by the sa,d intended act to enable the com-
pany to be thereby incorporated to make and maintain the following
works or some of them for the purpose of supplying wi h water the in-
habitants of and premises within the boroughs, districts, and parishes
of Wandsworth otherwise All Saints Wandsworth, Putney otherwise
Saint Mary Putney, Roehampton, Barnes otherwise Saint Mary
Barnes, Mortlake, East Sheen, Kew, Richmond, Petsrsham, Batter-
sea, Saint Mary Battersea, Hamlet of Poise, Clapham, Holy Trinity
Clapham, Streatham, Saint Leonard streatiia n, Upper Tooting,
Lambeth otherwise Saint Mary Lambeth, Saint Matthew Brixton,
Saint Mark Kennington, the district of Lambeth Church including
Lambeth Palace, Saint Luke Norwood, Saint John Waterloo, Vaux-
hall, Nine Elms Vauxhall, Saint Mary Newington Butts, the districts
of Saint Mary, Saint Peter, atid the Holy Trinity, Newington, Ber-
mondsey, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, Saint James otherwise
Saint John Bermondsey, Saint Giles Camberwell, the Hamlet of Dul-
wich, East Dulwich, Saint George Camper 11, 11, Peckham, Walworth,
Saint Peter Walworth, Rotherhithe,otherwise Saint Mary Rotherhithe
otherwise Redriffe, Merton otherwise Saint Mary Merton, Mordon,
otherwise Morden, Saint Lawrence Mordon, Mitcham, Saint Peter
and Saint Paul Mitcham, Tooting, Lower Tooting, Balham Hill,
Kno_ltht's Hill, Tooting-Graveney otherwise Saint Nicholas Tooting-
dZeoeY, Wimbledon otherwise Wirnbieden, Seint Mary Wirnbie-
so ' CroYclon, All Saints Norwood, Saint George the Martyr
uthw AA Christchurch, Saint John Horsleydown, Saint Saviour
otherwise Sai
sent otay. all in
Overy, Saint Thomas, the Clink Liberty, and
roughs of Bou. all in the county of Surrey, and such parts of the to-
included wait wark and Lambeth in the same county, as are not
and places, or ~,,the before mentioned parishes, hamlets, districts,
To construct andrZ et them, or some parts thereof, that is to say,
all proper eurano4sltitain : Firstly. A reservoir or reservoirs with
Pities, and o%u:tering beds, weirs, sluices, cuts, canals, build-
waters, and other prr works at, upon, or near to the lands,
and to the west side 077,Y near to and immediately adjoining,
Te river Wandle, and of the work or mill
called or known as the
water or work thereto pc,(172. UV or " Upper Mill," and of the
si Town, or Upper Mill slead:nb,lues and called or known as the
wise, All Saints Wandsworth, 17, +hthe Parish of Wandsworth, other-
and divert into the said reservoir—e
county of Surrey, and to take reservoirs, the waters of the
river Wandle, or `Town thereuorf
Drill ;" and to construct,
near near the said Mill" or -Ite:).7in a point thereon, at or
lay down, and maintain certain cets, canals,
or pipes,
and the said
Pipes, between the
said river Wandle, at or about the point lmts
Ter or reservoirs
intended reservoir or reservoirs; an which
tters to tie
and works will be made and maintainedrZ
ri in the sail
Wandsworth in the county of Surrey: and e etch waters said Parisli
and diverted as aforesaid, now flow into the river Thames
with all
taken
last-mentioned parish at the confluence of the said
with the Thames. Secondly.—A reservoir, or reservoivree,r Handle
proper engines, buildings, filtering beds, and other works connected
therewith, at or upon Wimbledon Common, or l'utney heath,
one of them, in the parishes of Wandsworth and Putney, or one
of
them. Thirdly.—A reservoir or reservoirs, with all proper engines,
buildings, filtering beds, and other works at, upon, or near to a cer-
tain meadow, or grassfield in the parish of St. (Tiles, Camberwell,
adjoining or near to a certain roadway or lane, called or known as
" Wood Lane," now or lately in the °cell pation of Peter Armstrong,
Fourthly.—A reservoir, or reservoirs, with ell proper engines, build-
ings, filtering beds, and other works, at or upon certain grass land
In the parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, surrounded by a eertain road-
way, lane, or street, called or known as " The Royal Circus." tthly.
—A reservoir, or reservoirs, with all proper engines, buildingsF, filter-
ing beds, and other works at or upon certain gra S land situate in the
district of All Saints, in the parish of Croydon, now or lately in the
occupation of William Wood. Sixthly. -- A cut, aqueduct, or pipe
tract, or pipe, or main, or cuts, aq tied Lets, or pipe tracts,or waifs, witli
all proper bridges, conduits, tunnels, pipes, mains, works, and coil veni -
ences from and between the said intended reservoir or reservoirs arid
filtering beds in the parish of Wandsworth, otherwise All Saints,
Wandsworth, first above described, to the reservoir or icservoirs
and works on Wimbledon Common, secondly above described.
Seventhly.—A cut, aqueduct, or pipe tract, or pipe or main, or cuts,
aqueducts, or pipe tracts, or pipes or mains, with all proper
bridges, concinits,tunnels,pipes, mains, works, and conveniences from I
the said intended reservoir or reservoirs and filtering beds adjoining
the said River Wandle, in the parish of Wandsworth, otherwise All
Saints
Wandsworth firstly above described, to the reservoir or
reservoirs in the parish of
described. St.'
Giles, am ierwell, thirdly above
Elghtly.—A cut, aqueduct, or pipe track, or pipe

or main, with all proper mains or bridges, conduits, tunnels,
works, and conveniences connected therewith, diverging from the
main cut, aqueduct, or pipe track, pipe, or main last above•described,
at a point about forty yards from and to the west side of the church
called " Kennington New Church," or Saint Mark Kennington, in
the parish of Lambeth, and terminating at or upon, or near to the
reservoir or reservoirs and other works to be constructed as afore-
said,o do, in
in
upon certain grass land in the occupation of William
district of All Saints, in the parish of Croydon. Ninthly.
Hood,
o r
the
—A cut, aqueduct, or pipe tract, or pipe or main, with all proper
mains, bridges, conduita,i, unnels, works, and conveniences con-
nected therewith, diverging from and out of the cut, aqueduct, or
pipe tract, pipe, or main last above described, at or near to a road-
way, lane, or street in the parish of Saint Mary Lambeth, called-
" York Road," and terminating at er upon or near to the reservoir or
reservoirs ana other works to be constructed as aforesaid in or upon
certain land surrounded by a roadway, lane, or street, called or
known as the " Royal Circus," in the said parish of Saint Mary,.
Lambeth Tenthly.—A cat, aqueduct, or pipe tract, or pipe, or
main, with all proper, mains, bridges, conduits, tunnels, works, and
conveniences connected therewith, diverging from and out of the
cut, aqueduct, or pipe track, pipe, or main last above described, at
or near to a point about one buttered yards to the west of Camber-
well-green, in the parish of Saint Giles,
Camberwell, and terminating
by a junction with the cut, aqueduct, or pipe tract, or pipe, or main
seventhly above described, and terminating as aforesaid, with the
reservoir or reservoirs, filtering beds, and other works and conveni-
ences to be constructed on certain land in the parish of Saint Giles,
Camberwell, at a point about one hundred yards from the west cor-
ner of Rye-lane, in the parish of Saint Giles, Camberwell ; which
several cuts, aqueducts, or pipe tracks, mains, bridges, conduits,
reservoirs, filtering beds, and other works and conveniences, are
in, through, or into the parishes and extra-paroehial n other
intended to be made, laid down, and maintained, or will pass from,
rwise Wimbleden, St. Ma Wint.
that is to say : Wimbledon, oche ry places following in the said county of Surrey, or some of them
Saints Wandsworth, Battersea, St. Mary Battersea, Clapham, Holy
bledon, Putney, St. Mary Putney, Wandsworth, otherwise All
Trinity Clapham,Kennington, Lambeth, otherwise St. Mary Lambeth,
the district of Lambeth Church including Lambeth Palace, St. Giles
Camberwell, Peckham, Streatham, otherwise St. Leonard Streatham,
Croydon, Newington, otherwise St. Mary Newington Butts, St.
Mary, St. Peter, and Holyl Trinty Newington, and St. George the
Martyr Southwark, and the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.
And it is further intended by the said act to authorise such com-
pany to break and open up, and again to restore the roads, streets,
lanes, courts, ways, and passages and other places within
parishes and extra-parochial and other places and boroughs
highways,
the
a ay a
aforesaid, to be supplied with water as before mentioned, for the
purpose of distributing such supply, and to lay pipes and mains in
and upon or over or under such roads, streets, highways, lanes, courts,
ways, passages, and places, for the purpose of such distribution, and
to break and open up, or otherwise interfere with such other roads,
streets, and highways, railways, rivers, streams, and canals within
any of the parishes and extra-parochial and other places hereinbefore
mentioned, and therein or thereupon, and under or over the same to
lay such pipes and mains, and do such other works, whether perma-
nent or temporary, as may be necessary for bringing in such supply,
or constructing the intended works aforesaid, or any of them.
Also to authorise such company to contract and agree with any
other Water company, or any body of commissioners, or other public
body, company, or persons, requiring large quantities of water for
the supply of such companies, commissioners, bodies, or persons,
with water in bulk for domestic use, manufacturing, sanitary, or
other purposes,
and to take rents, rates, or duties, for water supplied
by the said intended company, and to sell and dispose of and distti-
bate the sewerage water and sewerage manure, and other matters
collected by the said company, and to take rents or rates therefor;
to confer exemptions from the payments of rents, rates, or duties;
and other rights and privileges.
And it is also intended, by the said act, to authorise the said com-
pany to take by compulsion or otherwise, the lands, houses, waters,
streams, and other property required for the purposes of the com-
pany, and the works to be authorised as aforesaid, or any of them,
and to vary or extinguish such existing rights, or rights reserved,
and privileges connected with the said lands, houses, waters, streams,
and other property, or water companies, or other bodies or persons,
which might in any manner or way interfere with or impede the ob-
jects and purposes aforesaid, or any of them.
And Notice is Hereby Further Given, that duplicate plans and
sections, describing the lines, situations, and levels of the said in-
tended works, and the lands, houses, streams, waters, and other
property required for the purposes thereof, with books of reference
to such plans, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will, on or before the 30th day of November instant,
be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Clerk of the
Peace tar the county of Surrey, at his office in North-street, Lambeth,
within the said county ; and that, on or before the said 30th day of
November copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of
reference, as relates to each parish or extra-parochial place, in or
through which the said intended works are proposed to be made and
maintained, with a copy of this notice, as published in the London
Gazette, will he deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish,
at his place of residence ; and as regards any such extra-parochial
place, with the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining to
such extra-parochial place, at his place of residence.
And Notice is also hereby further given, that on or before the 31st
day of December next, printed copies of the said bill will be deposited
in the Private Bill-office of the House of Commons.
Dattd this First day of November, 1853.
MULLINS & PADDISON,
15, Tokenhouse-yard, City,
Solicitors for the Bill.