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A History of the County of Stafford
… topping the whole. 26 Before the cutting of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 176677 there were only a few cottages around … of the Potteries. 132 The first sod of the Trent and Mersey Canal, opened in 1777, was cut below Brownhills in … to the west of the farmhouse and crossed by the Trent-Mersey Canal. 245 Other Estates Bank House in Sneyd within …
A History of the County of Stafford
… roads in 1763 and 1765 and the building of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 176677 the industry received fresh … moved in 1898 from the Central Pottery, Burslem, to the Mersey Pottery at Middleport, built by Anthony Shaw c. 1860. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1927. 5 CANALS The Burton stretch of the Trent and Mersey canal was completed in 1770, and by 1771 there was a … where it stopped a short distance from the Trent and Mersey canal. 8 By 1776 there was a wharf at a lock west of … at the Shobnall end. 9 The proprietors of the Trent and Mersey canal at first refused to allow a lock connecting the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… plain. 1 Further west, beyond the line of the Trent and Mersey canal, the land rises gently to c. 170 ft. at Shobnall …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… air is particularly salubrious. A communication with the Mersey, the Dee, the Humber, and the Trent, is afforded by …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… far as Wrexham, to the south; the estuaries of the Dee and Mersey, with the port of Liverpool, to the north; and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Warrington. The township lies on the south side of the Mersey, which separates the county from Lancashire; and …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… of Liverpool, with its rights of passage over the Mersey, together with several other profits, for which he …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… town of Harwich, and on the state of the Island of East Mersey. 3 pp. [Murdin, pp. 540542. In extenso.] 249. James …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… For lease in reversion of the manor of Booking in West Mersey, Essex, to the use of the present tenant, Thomas …