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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is carried on to a considerable extent. The Chesterfield canal and the Midland railway pass through the parish. The … The village is pleasantly situated near the Ellesmere canal, on the road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead; and is … of paper is carried on upon a small scale. The Coventry canal passes through the village. The living is a perpetual …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been on the decline since the opening of the Chesterfield canal; but frame-work knitting is still carried on to a small …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… train ran off the rails, went over a bridge on to a frozen canal below, the engine broke through the ice and upward of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… schemes of the present day, there is one for making a canal (for ships) from Shoreham to London, with a line of … it would be exceedingly desirable to have the aforesaid canal. Time will show if it is practicable. 9. Sunday. Went …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1624, when the king dined at Wichnor. The Grand Trunk canal passes through the chapelry, and communicates with the … passed in 1840 for inclosing certain lands. The Buckingham canal passes through the parish. The living is a perpetual … from Buckingham to StonyStratford, and the Grand Junction canal, intersect the parish; and the Wolverton station of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… high road from Linlithgow to Edinburgh, and near the Union canal. It is also close to the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… to 367 by 1801, including 13 navigators building the canal to Buckingham, 55 and continued to rise modestly to a … neighbours. 63 The Buckingham branch of the Grand Junction Canal passed through the southern part of the parish on its … Stratford, 64 the branch was finally built as a deadwater canal throughout. Digging at Wicken began in October 1800 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… owing to the facilities of communication afforded by canal and railway. The manufacture of calicoes, fustians, and … but the river navigation has been since superseded by the canal between Leeds and Liverpool, which passes close to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… employed in the manufacture of stockings. The Leicester canal runs through the parish, and a station on the Midland …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… finely varied with hills and valleys. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through. The living is a discharged vicarage, … parish church. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal runs within a quarter of a mile of the village, and … in the trade of Nottingham. The Trent, the Nottingham canal, and the railway to Derby, afford facility of …