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their waters differ in quality ; that of the ono being hard, sweet, and
beautifully pellucid, while the other more nearly resembles rain water,
and is used only for the purposes to which tho latter is commonly
applied. Neither are at present supposed to possess any medicinal
properties. An infant brook issues from their united and ceaseless
overflowing; which, descending the hill, and winding through the
adjacent meadows, at length finds its way to the comparatively distant
Lea River.
"This tract is regularly visited, and its limits marked at the perambulation
of the Parish, which takes place septennially; it is at
present entirely under pasturage. The only habitations upon it are
two by the road side, traditionally said to occupy the site of the dairy
farm, which, in the monastic times, sent its produce to the nuns of
Clerkenwell. Part of an adjoining house being also within the
parochial line, (as is signified by the usual initials affixed to its front),
the perambulators are obliged to pass through this latter dwelling, in
order to assert their long established boundary."
This part of the Parish has within the last few years
been laid out for building. New roads have been formed,
and there are now 32 houses in assessment.

The rates made in April, for the half-year to Michaelmas,
were based upon a rateable value of £350,383, and those