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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… repairing and maintaining of an ancient haven, river and channel of the borough and town of Colchester in the county … Third read. An act for repairing and maintaining the channel and haven of Colchester and paving the streets. [MR. …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes)
Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton hundreds together occupy the Lower Parrett valley stretching from the Quantock ridge in the west to King's Sedgemoor in the east, and from the Bristol Channel in the north to the river Tone in the south.
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… new works consisted chiefly in the formation of a straight channel from the town to the sea, cut through marshy land, … and access thus afforded to a commodious harbour. The channel is about a mile long, free from shoal, and now at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… previously to the diversion of the latter into its present channel, it was nearly equidistant. According to tradition, … the administration of the city returned into its proper channel, and the election of the magistrates, which had been … in the centre called the Inches, which separated the channel of the river from the harbour, on the north side of …