Oxford (Corporation) Waterworks Act 1885
WHEREAS the mayor aldermen and citizens of Oxford (in this Act called "the Corporation") have for upwards of seventy years possessed waterworks and supplied the said City with water drawn directly or indirectly from the River Thames or Isis: And whereas at and before the passing of the Act herein-after recited the waterworks of the Corporation comprised and still comprise inter alia a piece of land covered with water called the Hincksey Lake situate in the parish of South Hincksey in the coun...