Chelsea Waterworks Company
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The Chelsea Waterworks Company was established in 1723 "for the better supplying the City and Liberties of Westminster and parts adjacent with water".[1] The company received a Royal Charter on 8 March 1723.[2] Under engineer James Simpson the company became the first in the country to install a slow sand filtration system to purify the water they were drawing from the River Thames.[3] The company moved to Surbiton in 1856 to a site adjacent to the Lambeth Water Company, who also employed Simpson, becoming the last water company to move their inlets above the polluted tidal water zone.[3] The waterworks supplied water to many central London locations throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, but its functions were taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1902.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b The London Encyclopaedia, Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, Macmillan, 1995, ISBN 0-333-57688-8
- ^ Royal Charters, Privy Council website
- ^ a b History of the Chelsea Waterworks
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