Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Author's Note
- Contents
- PLATES
- Chapter I The Open Watercourses in the Streets of Cambridge
- Chapter II The Nine Wells, and the Watercourse down to the Conduit Head
- Chapter III The Distribution of the Water from the Conduit Head
- Chapter IV The Elizabethan Proposals
- Chapter V The Ancient King's Ditch
- Chapter VI The Water brought down Trumpington Street to the King's Ditch
- Chapter VII The Water brought to the Market Hill
- Chapter VIII The Water brought to Emmanuel and Christ's Colleges
- Chapter IX Thomas Hobson, the Carrier
- Chapter X Other Benefactors of the Conduit
- Chapter XI The Constitution of the Trust
- Chapter XII Roman and Medieval Waterworks and the New River from Ware to London
- Chapter XIII Technical Skill in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter XIV Cambridge Water Supplies, Past and Present
- Chapter XV The Medieval Water Supply of Trinity College
- Chapter XVI The Old Account Books of the Trust
- Chapter XVII The More Recent History of the Conduit
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter V - The Ancient King's Ditch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Author's Note
- Contents
- PLATES
- Chapter I The Open Watercourses in the Streets of Cambridge
- Chapter II The Nine Wells, and the Watercourse down to the Conduit Head
- Chapter III The Distribution of the Water from the Conduit Head
- Chapter IV The Elizabethan Proposals
- Chapter V The Ancient King's Ditch
- Chapter VI The Water brought down Trumpington Street to the King's Ditch
- Chapter VII The Water brought to the Market Hill
- Chapter VIII The Water brought to Emmanuel and Christ's Colleges
- Chapter IX Thomas Hobson, the Carrier
- Chapter X Other Benefactors of the Conduit
- Chapter XI The Constitution of the Trust
- Chapter XII Roman and Medieval Waterworks and the New River from Ware to London
- Chapter XIII Technical Skill in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter XIV Cambridge Water Supplies, Past and Present
- Chapter XV The Medieval Water Supply of Trinity College
- Chapter XVI The Old Account Books of the Trust
- Chapter XVII The More Recent History of the Conduit
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Hobson's ConduitThe New River at Cambridge Commonly Called Hobson's River, pp. 27 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1938