- Seething Wells
infobox UK place
country = England
map_type = Greater London
region= London
population=
official_name= Seething Wells
latitude= 51.393441
longitude= -0.313103
os_grid_reference= TQ173674
london_borough= Kingston
post_town= SURBITON
postcode_area= KT
postcode_district= KT6
dial_code= 020
constituency_westminster= Kingston & SurbitonSeething Wells is a locality of
Surbiton in theRoyal Borough of Kingston upon Thames . It is the site of a former water treatment works on the south bank of theRiver Thames , today being redeveloped.The Metropolis Water Act of 1852 prohibited the extraction of water for household purposes from the tidal Thames below Teddington Weir. The
Lambeth Waterworks Company anticipated this by building their works at Seething Wells which were completed and opened in 1852, the same year as the Act was passed. Another company - theChelsea Waterworks Company - joined the Lambeth Waterworks Company here. The two establishments existed side by side until they were both incorporated into theMetropolitan Water Board in 1903. However the inlets here sucked up too much mud with the water because of turbulence caused by theRiver Mole ,River Ember andThe Rythe . The Lambeth Waterworks Company built a new installation atMolesey , and the Chelsea Waterworks Company, followed them there three years later, after attempting to build works oppositeHampton Court . [ [http://www.moleseyhistory.co.uk/books/surrey/industrialHistory/index.html#D1 A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Borough of Elmbridge] ]ee also
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