Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Improvement Act 1873
WHEREAS there is on the Kentish coast, near the town of Ramsgate, a tract of land known as Pegwell Bay and Sandwich Flats, over the greater part of which the tide now flows, and the reclamation of that tract of land, and the bringing of it into cultivation and use for building and other purposes, would be of local and public advantage:
And whereas the Marquis Conyngham, as lord of the manor or alleged manor of Minster, and the Earl of Guilford and other owners of lands adjoining to that tract...