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The London Gazette, November 22, 1864. 5633 THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 22, 1864. 5633 of the old River Witham and Barlings Ban, such And to deepen, widen, and alter, or remove, and works commencing at or near the junction of the . rebuild all other locks, bridges, sluices, milldams, old River Witham with the River Witham, in the '( staunches, floodgates, tunnels, haling paths, works, said parishes of Bardney and,, Branston or one and conveniences upon the said River Witham, of them, near Horsley Deeps Lock, and ter- ioutk Delph, the old River Witham, Barlings Eau, minating at or near Barlings Abbey Ruins, in the Jillinghay Skirth, Horncastle Navigation, and said parish of Barlings, and to widen, deepen, £yme Eau, or Sleaford Navigation respectively, scour, and otherwise improve or alter the tribu- >etween 'the respective commencements and termi- tary streams, drains, and watercourses falling into nations of the works hereinbefore mentioned; the old River Witham and Barlings Eau, between o alter the level of the top water therein, to alter those points, all which works are intended to be he level of and to stop up, alter, divert, or other- made and maintained from, in, through, or into the wise interfere with, either temporarily or perma- parishes, townships, and places following, or some nently, all'turnpike roads, public carriage roads of them, that is to say, Barlings, Stainfield, or other roads or ways, haling-paths, drains, Fiskerton, and Bardney, in the parts of Lindsey, streams, canals or railways, which it may bo and Branston, in the parts of Kesteven, in the necessary to interfere with for the purposes of the .county of Lincoln. works ; and to deposit soil, earth, and other things To widen, deepen, scour, and otherwise improve, on the same, and the banks, slopes, and sides there- or alter the cut or channel,- called Billinghay of ; to alter, raise, or lower, or remove and rebuild Skirth, and to raise, widen, enlarge, or otherwise the bridges, culverts, arches, openings, floodways, improve both the banks of the same cut or channel, and other works over or in the said River Witham, such works commencing at or near the point where South Delph, Old River Witham, Barlings Eau, the said Billinghay Skirth joins the River Witham, Billinghay Skirth, Horncastle Navigation, and in the said parish of Billinghay, and terminating Kyme Eau or Sleaford Navigation respectively, at or near the Bridge over Billinghay Skirth at and the tributary streams, drains, and water the end of North Kyme Causeway, in the town- courses thereof respectively, in or near tha lines ship or hamlet of North Kyme, in the said of the works before described j and to con- parish of South Kyme; and to widen, deepen, struct new or additional bridges, culverts, and scour, and otherwise improve, or alter the tribu- openings, approaches, and other works in or tary streams, drains, and watercourses falling into near those lines ; all which said last-mentioned Billinghay Skirth, between those points; all which works are intended to be made and maintained in works are intended to be made and maintained the several parishes, townships, and places herein- from, in, through, or into the several parishes, before-mentioned with respect to the River townships, and places following, or some of them, Witham, South Delph, Old River Witham, that is to say, Billinghay Dales, Billinghay, South Barlings Eau, Billinghay Skirth, Horncastle Kyme,, North Kyme, and Walcot, all in the parts Navigation, and Kyme Eau or Sleaford Navigation of Kesteven, in the county of Lincoln. respectively. To widen, deepen, scour, and otherwise improve To divert into the intended works and altered or alter the Horncastle navigation, between the navigations, cuts, and channels the waters of the point where that navigation joins the River River Witham, South Delph, Old River Witham, Witham, in the parish of Tattershall in the Barlings Eau, Billinghay Skirth, Horncastle parts of Lindsey, in the county of Lincoln, and Navigation, River Bane, Kyme Eau or Sleaford the lock on that navigation nearest to the River Navigation, Car Dyke, Digby Dam, Stainfield Witham, situate in the parish of Tattershall, and Beck, and Drury Dyke, and of the drains and called Tattershall Lower Lock, and to lower and streams running into the same. alter the said lock; and which works are intended To deviate laterally from the lines of the in- to be made and maintained, wholly in the said tended works, to the extent shown on the plans, parish of Tattershall. and to deviate vertically from the levels shown To widen, deepen, scour, and otherwise improve on the sections hereinafter mentioned. or alter Kyme Eau or Sleaford navigation, between To maintain the works to be constructed under the point where it joins the River Witham, in the the Bill, or such of them, as other bodies or per- said parish of Swineahead, and the lock on sons are not liable to maintain. that navigation nearest to the River Witham, To purchase and take compulsorily or by agree- situate in the parish of South Kyme, and called ment, for the purposes of the Bill, lands and houses Kyme Lower Lock, and to lower and alter the in the several parishes, townships, and places said lock, and which works are intended to be named in this notice, or some of them, and also to made and maintained from, in, through, or into purchase and take compulsorily, or by agreement, the parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places easements, or limited interests, in or over all or following, or some of them, that is to say, any of such lands and houses, for the purposes of Swineshead, Hart's Grounds, Dogdyke, South tibe Bill. Kyme, North Kyme, Billinghay, Chapel Hill, and Jackson's Marsh, all in the county of Lincoln. To enter upon any lands within the parishes, To widen, lengthen, deepen, and alter the sills township?, or places before named, and to make and gates of the undermentioned delphs where and maintain, in, under, and through, or over such they join the River Witham (that is to say), lands, culverts, ditches, drains, sluices, staunches, walls, banks, arches, and other works, and for Timberland Delph, in the parish of Timberland ; such purposes to occupy the said lands, either tem- Metheringham Delph, in the parish of Stixwould porarily or permanently. Nocton Delph, in the parish of Dunston ; and Branston Delph, in the parishes of Branston, and And it is intended by the said Bill to empower Washingborough; all in the parts of Kesteven, in the said General Commissioners to assess and the county of Lincoln. levy new or increased rates or taxes, upon or in respect of the lands and grounds comprised in To deepen, widen, and alter or remove and re- the 1st, 3rd, and 5th districts respectively, described build the said lock called Horsley Deeps Lock, in in the Witham General Drainage Acts, and which the said parish of Branston, and a certain lock lands and grounds are situate in the7 several called Anton's Gowt Lock, situate in an extra- parishes, townships, and extra-parochial 'places parochial place adjoining the townships of Lan«ri- following, that is to say, Lincoln, Lincoln Common, ville and Frithville, in the parts of Lindsey, in the Canwick, Washingborough, Heighington, Bran* county of Lincoln, or one of them. fiton, Branston Dales, Potterhanworth, Fotterhan-.
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