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(2) The difficulty of effecting such making up under
existing conditions.
(3) The unanimous wish of the two District
Councils concerned as well of the ratepayers
generally of their respective districts.
and he recommended that an Order be made for the
removal of that portion of the existing boundary between
the Hampton Wick District and the Teddington District
which runs along the boundary fences of the property on
the Hampton Wick side of Normansfield Avenue from
the junction of that avenue with the Upper Teddington
Road eastwards to a point 200 feet beyond Glamorgan
Road and for the substitution thereof of a boundary
running down the centre of the said avenue from its
junction with the said Upper Teddington Road eastwards
to a point 200 feet beyond the said Glamorgan Road,
then southward at a right angle to a point where the
existing boundary leaves the boundary fence of Normansfield
Avenue and crosses a field in a south-easterly direction.
The Committee recommended and the Council
agreed that an Order be made accordingly.
I am sure that if this road be made up, it will be
greatly to the benefit of both districts.
The area of the district is 1,315 acres, 80 of which
comprise water. A large portion of the District is
included in the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court and
in Bushey Park and Home Park. It is almost level.
The soil is gravelly, and this accounts for the fact that
the ground dries very quickly after rain.
I am again indebted to Mr. Shorter, a gentleman
residing in the District, for an account of the rainfall.
I have inserted a table of his observations at the end of
this report. It will be seen that the total depth of rain
amounted to 24.60 inches. This is nearly 4 inches less
than the total depth of the rainfall last year, when it
amounted to 28.49 inches. The rainiest months were