Volume 2

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1104. Letter from the county surveyor reporting that the county bridges are in good repair, with the exception of the post and rail fencing at Cheshunt Wash bridge, which requires repairs at a cost of .£15. Also an application for the widening of Walkern bridge (which is very narrow and dangerous) at a cost of £69. 4th April. Adoption, by the visiting justices of the county prison, of the plan suggested by the inspector-general of prisons for the enlarging of the county prison, and sanction by the Secretary of State for the carrying out of the same. 1110. Eecommcndation by the police committee that a police rate of five farthings in the pound be levied for the ensuing half-year. 1169. Eecommendation by the finance committee of a levy of five farthings in the pound for the half-year. 1685. Eesolution that the county surveyor be directed to estimate the expense of the repairs of the bridge at Walkern, and raising the parapet, and that such sum be paid to the trustees of the turnpike road on their widening the bridge and executing the repairs to the satisfaction of the county surveyor. BUNDLE for 1849. 18. Petition of certain of the inhabitants of the parish of Buck- land to the magistrates of the county calling attention to the dangerous state of part of the footpath leading from Buntingford to Chipping, and within seventy yards of the county bridge, which crosses the waterslade near the northern boundary of the parish of Laystone. The waterslade above mentioned flows with a rapid current in winter along a channel gradually deepening for three-quarters of a mile to the spot indicated, where there is a sudden fall of 12 feet from the footpath, there being no railing or protection for foot-passengers. Partly by the action of the water in winter, and partly by the extraction of materials for the purpose of repairing the county road»