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Water Supply.—Four Companies supply the Parish
with water, the approximate boundaries of their respective
districts being as follows :—
1. Chelsea Waterworks Company (Chief Office, 35,
Commercial Road, Pimlico). So much of the Parish as lies
to the south of the centre of Pall Mall and Cleveland Row.
This Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in the
year 1722.
2. New River Company (Chief Office, Clerkenwell, E.C.)
So much of the Parish as lies to the east of a line running
at the back of the east side of Poland Street, Lexington
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Street, Great Windmill Street, and along the centre of the
Haymarket. This Company was incorporated by Royal
Charter in the year 1019.
3. Grand Junction Waterworks Company (Chief Office,
65, South Molton Street). So much of the Parish as lies
to the west of the district supplied by the New River
Company and the north of the centre of Pall Mall. This
Company was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1811.
4. West Middlesex Waterworks Company (Chief Office,
19, Marylebone Road). So much of Oxford Street as is
situate within the Parish. This Company was incorporated
by Act of Parliament in the year 1806.
The rates of charge for a supply of water for domestic
purposes authorised by the various Acts of Parliament
relating to the several above-mentioned Companies are
almost identical, the scale being as follows :—
Where the annual value of the dwellinef-house or other
place does not exceed £200, a rate not exceeding 4 percent,
per annum ; where such annual value exceeds £200, a rate
not exceeding 3 per cent, per annum. An additional charge,