Description:Amongst papers relating to the Cotes estate in Eccleshall is a ‘Certificate of Sufficient Water Supply’ relating to the ‘Public Health (Water) Act, 1878’. The Certificate was issued on 29th November 1907 by Stone Rural District Council to Colonel Cotes, who was Lord of the Manor of Cotes.
A report had been carried out by the council and the certificate issued to certify that a sufficient water supply was available to Cotes in accordance with ‘the Public Health (Water) Act, 1878’. The certificate states that the water supply was sufficient for the consumption and use for domestic purposes of the inmates of the said House’.