Signed minutes of Bath City Council Waterworks Committee

Reference Number
BC/2/1/164
Level of Description
Series
Title
Signed minutes of Bath City Council Waterworks Committee
Date
1768-1968 (incomplete)
Extent
Extent: 19 vols
Description
The Corporation's involvement with supplying water to the city dates back to at least the late thirteenth century, and there is evidence of serious investment by the Corporation in the maintenance of the water network from at least the sixteenth century. The supply of water was initially limited to the city centre, with other areas dependent on private water supplies. However, from the mid-nineteenth century onwards the Council took advantage of general legislation as well as promoting private Acts of Parliament in order to purchase and lease new supplies of water and install water mains. By the early twentieth century it provided a water supply to the whole of the city.

In 1974 Wessex Water, one of ten new regional Water Authorities, took over responsibility for the city water supply.
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