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PORT OF LONDON HEALTH AUTHORITY
5, CHURCH PASSAGE, GUILDHALL, B.C.2
Telegraphic Address "PORTELTH LONDON".
Telephone No. CLERKENWELL 2011.
LIMITS OP THE PORT OF LONDON.
THE LIMITS OP THE PORT OP LONDON AS AT PRESENT DEFINED
COMMENCE AT HIGH-WATER MARK IN THE RIVER THAMES AT TEDDINGTON LOCK,
IN THE COUNTY OP SURREY, AND EXTEND DOWN BOTH SIDES OP THE RIVER
THAMES TO AIT IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN PROM THE PILOT MARK AT
THE ENTRANCE OP HAVENGORE CREEK, IN THE COUNTY OP ESSEX, TO THE
LAND'S END AT WARDEN POINT, IN THE ISLE OP SHEPPEY, IN THE COUNTY
OP KENT, SUCH POINT BEING THE NORTH-WES TERN LIMIT OP THE PORT OP
FAVERSHAM, AND EXTEND UP AND INCLUDE BOTH SIDES OP THE RIVER MEDWAY
TO AN IMAGINARY STRAIGHT LINE DRAWN PROM THE SOUTH-EAST POINT OP
LAND WESTWARD OP COALMOUTH CREEK, THENCE ACROSS THE SAID RIVER
MEDWAY TO THE WESTERNMOST POINT OP THE PIECE OP LAND WHICH FORMS
THE EASTERN SIDE OP THE STANGATE CREEK, OR, IN OTHER WORDS THE
NORTH-WEST POINT OP FLEET MARSH, AND PROM THENCE IN A SOUTHERLY
DIRECTION TO IWADE CHURCH, IN THE SAID COUNTY OP KENT, AND THENCE
IN A NORTH-EASTERLY DIRECTION TO ELMLEY CHAPEL IN THE SAID ISLE
OF SHEPPEY, A SUPPOSED DIRECT LINE PROM ELMLEY CHAPEL TO IWADE
CHURCH, BEING THE WESTERN LIMIT OP THE PORT OP FAVERSHAM, AND THE
SAID PORT OP LONDON INCLUDES THE ISLAHDS OF HAVENGORE CREEK AFORESAID,
CALLED POTTON AND RUSHLEY ISLANDS, AND SO MUCH OF THE SAID
CREEK AND WATERCOURSE AS EXTENDS PROM IT TO THE TOWN OP ROCHFORD,
AND ALSO INCLUDES ALL OTHER ISLANDS, RIVERS, STREAMS, CREEKS, WATERS,
WATERCOURSES, CHANNELS, HARBOURS, DOCKS AND PLACES WITHIN THE
BEFORE-MENTIONED LIMITS CONTAINED.
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