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Plaque

Duffield Sluice

Erection date: 1822

Inscription

Sewers Surrey & Kent
Duffield Sluice
1822

Site: Duffield Sluice (1 memorial)

SE16, Bermondsey Wall East

The 1830 map has the Duffield Sluice marked on the river bank just to the north-west of this building, where there is now a patch of green with a granite drinking fountain at the centre.  This neat little building may have been housed offices and been one of a group of buildings used by the sewer company, necessary for the managment of the nearby sluice.   has investigated.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Duffield Sluice

Subjects commemorated i

Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers

Since Tudor times this organisation was responsible for the drainage of the l...

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Duffield sluice

This was part of the drainage system that kept the south bank free from flood...

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