Peterborough Water Act 1867
WHEREAS the Town of Peterborough and the Parishes and Places in the Neighbourhood thereof are at present inadequately supplied with Water, and it is expedient that a better Supply should be afforded them: And whereas such Supply of Water could be obtained from the Lake called or known as the Peakirk Gravel Pit in the Parish of St. James Deeping in the Parts of Kesteven and County of Lincoln: And whereas Plans and Sections of the Reservoirs, Aqueducts, and other Works (herein-after called "the...