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Park's lawn at Teddington, including the back-water 

 known as the Crolock, 1060 yards. Thames Ditton and 

 Long Ditton. The preserve is from Lord Henry Fitz- 

 gerald's, running eastwards, 512 yards. Hampton. The 

 preserve is from the west end of Garrick's Lawn, including 

 the Tantling Bay, to the lower end pile below Moulsey 

 Lock, 1514 yards. Sunbury. The preserve is from the 

 weir westward to the east end pile of breakwater, 683 yards. 

 Walton. The preserve is at the east end of Tankerville 

 and west of Horse Bridge, called Walton Sale, 250 yards. 

 Shepperton. The preserve is, Upper Deep, 200 yards ; 

 Old Deep, east of the creek rails, 240 yards ; Lower Deep, 

 east of the drain, 200 yards. Weybridge. The preserve 

 is from the weir to Shepperton Lock, 830 yards. Chertsey. 

 The preserve is the weir to 80 yards eastward of the 

 bridge, 445 yards. Laleham and Penton Hook. The 

 preserve at Penton Hook is from the guard piles eastward 

 round the Hook to the east end of the lock. Staines. The 

 preserve is the City boundary stone to 210 yards eastward 

 of the bridge. 



From time to time these preserves have been rendered 

 more efficient by the sinking of old punts, brick burrs, and 

 by driving stakes into the river bed, as a protection against 

 netting operations. The last of such established preserves 

 was that at Kingston, which was made in the year 1857. 

 Upon application being made to the Lord Mayor, the move- 

 ment was opposed by some of the professional fishermen, 

 but such opposition was overruled, and the following is a list 

 of the obstacles sunk : " Five old punts, two iron waggons, 

 7 feet 3 inches in length by 4 inches, and 2 feet 6 inches in 

 height, open at one end ; 450 stakes driven ; six 2-horse 

 loads of large brick burrs ; twenty egg chests with tenter 

 hooks ; fifty large flint stones ; ten tar-barrels, tenter- 



