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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of 1279 acres, and is crossed on the east by the Louth navigation; the surface is flat, and the soil of a clayey … bridge; and in addition to the advantages derived from the navigation of the river, which admits vessels of 60 tons' … port, is 315, and their aggregate burthen 34,676 tons. The navigation of the coast is very dangerous; the Roads, in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… inconvenience as high as the village. When the Thames Navigation Commission built a pen at King's weir in 1789 and … complained that the locks, installed to aid river navigation, were misused by the owner of Wolvercote paper …