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Finding No	CSR/14/8
Title	Order for construction of a dam at Hedon Haven
Date	18 Jul 1639
Description	For construction of a dam where the sewer leading to Hedon Haven falls into Ellyfoot Dyke and for the main sewer to Hedon Haven and the Humber to be kept well dresses. And that the new sewer made by the inhabitants of Keyingham to carry water out of their carrs from Stutford by the west sewer to Little Langbridge and so 'by the skirts of the cornfeilde' to Newlands Yate and so to Saltaugh Clow shall be dammes and the old drain from the lands from Little Langbrigge through a dyke between Keyingham Salt marshe and Keyingham field and Keyingham Marshe into Keyingham fleete and so to Keyingham Clow shall be re-opened. The new sewer may be re-opened if the old proves insufficient. And that the damming at Langbrigge between Keyingham Fleete and the sewer to Saltaugh Clow be opened until the water level in Keyingham Fleete is lower than the grounds in the Levell and Keyingham Clow 'be sett'
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