Westgate and Birchington Gas Act 1881
WHEREAS certain parts of the parishes of Birchington Acol Saint John the Baptist and Minster in the Isle of Thanet in the county of Kent have for some time past been supplied with gas from certain gasworks situate in the said parish of Birchington on the lands described in the schedule to this Act and belonging to Frederick Searle Parker and William Searle Parker (in this Act called "the owners") who are now supplying gas therefrom:

And whereas the demand for gas within the said parishes and...