The Church Street Sewer, commences in the Gloucester Road, opposite Canning Place, continues along the Gloucester Road, receiving the Drainage from Victoria Grove, Gore Road, and adjacent Streets, proceeds by and past Hereford Square to the termination of the Gloucester Road, into the Old Brompton Road, turns eastward, receives the Sewers from Gloucester Grove East and West, continues southerly down Selwood Lane unto the limits of the parish in the Fulham Road.
This Sewer is carried through a portion of the parish, the land of which has been till recently under culture as Market Gardens. The newly-formed roads here of the Royal Exhibition Commissioners Mr. Jackson and others have given an impulse to building in this locality to which this Sewer will be an important outlet for the drainage.
The Queen Street Sewer, commences on the east side of the Gloucester Road, Kensington, proceeds southerly in an irregular form, through the land belonging to the Royal Exhibition Commissioners—forms a junction with a branch from Park Lane, continues in an irregular and uneven course into Cromwell Lane, and then westerly into the Old Brompton Road, thence south easterly down Pelham Road, into Pelham Place, where it receives the drainage from Alfred Place West, Thurloe Square, and South Street—from Pelham Place it is directed westerly into Pelham Crescent, and thence westward along Fulham Road, receiving at Sydney Place, the partial drainage of Onslow Square, and then it proceeds to its outlet from the parish by Sydney Street.
The Smith Street Sewer, commences at the eastern limit of Brompton Road, proceeds westward along the Brompton Road into the Fulham Road, and passes from the parish at Keppell Street. This Sewer is the outlet for the adjacent Sewers on the North side of the Brompton Road; and of Grove Place, Michael’s Grove, and Brompton Crescent, on the South Side.
A portion of the Kensington branch of the Counter Creek sewer, taking the drainage from Notting-hill, east of the Turnpike-gate, Uxbridge, and other streets and places in that locality, passing through a part of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, to Young-street, receiving the drainage from several streets and places in the town proper, and also the whole of the drainage from Kensington New-town. At the Workhouse the sewer is 5 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 6 in., and here terminates; the sewage matter, being conveyed from thence along the Pembroke-road, by an 18 in. glazed stoneware pipe, which also receives the drainage of the Pembroke-road and Hutchinson’s estate.
In consequence of the difference in size of sewers, as here marked out, the basements of a vast number of houses in the New-town and other places have been flooded from time to time, and serious inconveniences have in consequence arisen to the ratepayers in those localities.
It is worthy of remark, that after representations made by the vestry to the General Board in August last, they directed a sewer of equal size, viz.: 5ft. 6in. by 3ft. 6in. to be substituted for the 18 in. stoneware pipe, which will effectually remedy the very serious evil pointed out.
The total lengths of sewers in this parish, under the immediate direction of the vestry, are as follows:
| Brick Sewers | 27¾ miles. |
| Pipe Sewers | 7⅙ ,, |
| Open Sewers | 1¾ ,, |
The open sewers are not in closely populated districts, but chiefly in that portion of the parish at present under cultivation as grass land or market gardens.