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- W191819078 abstract "The Land Drainage Act of 1930 became the benchmark of twentieth-century agricultural-drainage legislation. Its purpose was to simplify and update drainage legislation enacted since the sixteenth century and to reorganize the maintenance and improvement of arterial drainage on a catchment-wide basis. The paper reconstructs the five stages by which such a fundamental overhaul was perceived to be necessary and implemented. The bitter controversy as to the funding of the major improvements to the estuary and tidal length of the River Great Ouse had a considerable bearing on the timing and content of the Bill. The immediate and longer-term significance of the Act is discussed, both in respect of the wider management of watercourses and the potential for agricultural improvement of the adjacent lands. In an earlier paper published in the Review, John Bowers highlighted the endeavours of the inter- war Ministry of Agriculture to instigate improvements to arterial drainage.1 Such schemes were a prerequisite to the under-drainage and ditching works intended to raise the productivity of individual estates and holdings. But whilst holding that those benefiting most directly from any local improvement should provide the necessary investment, the Ministry believed the State might contribute technical expertise and Exchequer aid in carrying out arterial works. Not only might this stimulate the leading agriculturalists of the affected localities into planning and organising such an infrastructure, but the requisite Drainage Orders invariably required much explanation and advocacy among the other interests likely to be affected within the river catchment and local authority. As the authors of a guide to the Land Drainage Act of 1930 conceded, there were few issues of such national importance that left 'the general mass of the public so unmoved as that of land drainage'.2 The present paper focuses on the controversies that caused ministers and officials, and their 'expert5 advisers, to accord such priority to arterial drainage, as both to capitalize upon parliamentary and sectoral support, and to overcome the opposition encountered from those quarters. Although national in its scale and purpose, such advocacy on the part of the Ministry was informed and considerably modified by the insights and experience gained from such * The author is grateful for the guidance of the anonymous referees, and for the assistance given by the Cambridge University Library, Public Record Office and the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Record Offices. The figure was prepared by Julie Gaunt." @default.
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- W191819078 title "Arterial drainage in inter-war England: the legislative perspective*" @default.
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