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