Bedford Level Corporation information

The Bedford Level Corporation (or alternatively the Corporation of the Bedford Level) was founded in England in 1663 to manage the draining of the Fens...

governor of the Bedford Level Corporation. In the 17th century, the Great Level was divided into the North, Middle and South Levels for the purposes...

Middle Level following the breakup of the former Bedford Level Corporation. The Middle Level is the central and largest section of the Great Level of The...

of Bedford formed a Corporation to drain the Bedford Levels. Cornelius Vermuyden was the engineer, and a major part of the scheme was the Old Bedford River...

was named after the fourth Earl of Bedford who contracted with the local Commission of Sewers to drain the Great Level of the Fens beginning in 1630. It...

Geometry), and also concurrently for many years as surveyor to the Bedford Level Corporation. There are short biographical notes of Dunthorne, one in the Philosophical...

1763–1848) was an English priest, a landowner involved both in the Bedford Level Corporation and in the Board of Agriculture. He was the son of John Harvey...

Leam, a straight cut from Peterborough to Guyhirn made by the Bedford Level Corporation in 1728. In order to improve the mouth of the river, which followed...

an Act of Parliament created the Middle Level Commissioners as a separate body to the Bedford Level Corporation, although they had been almost independent...

the Receiver & Expenditor General for the Bedford Level Corporation, the company which drained the Great Level of the Fens in the mid-seventeenth century...

longer flow by gravity from the land into the rivers. Although the Bedford Level Corporation was responsible for the main rivers in the region, they did not...

USAAF based in Cambridgeshire during World War II records of the Bedford Level Corporation which drained the Fens in East Anglia the library of the UK Cromwell...

succeeded his father in 1755. For many years, he was a member of the Bedford Level Corporation. Wyldbore served as Whig Member of Parliament for Peterborough...

Brink to Lynn. That an application be made to the Honourable Corporation of Bedford Level, requesting their Permission to open the said River between Wisbech...

in Scotland. Lord Howard opposed this route, too, as did the Bedford Level Corporation. In 1789, a line proposed by John Rennie was considered, which...