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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cultivation. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes for four miles and a half through the parish. … Barnsley to Wath-upon-Dearne, and on the Dearne and Dove canal, comprises about 410 acres of woodland; the prevailing … portion of it sand: ironstone abounds. The Wey and Arun canal passes through the parish. In the village is a mill for …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… road (later Teague's Bridge Lane) crossed the Wombridge Canal, perhaps not long after the canal's construction in 1788. 74 In 1931-2 the St. George's … In 1788 William Reynolds completed the 2½-km. Ketley Canal linking Ketley ironworks with mines near Oakengates, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… become a problem, and the construction of the Shrewsbury Canal was proposed. 39 Deep mining began early in the 19th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to invest in government stock and later in the Oxford Canal Company. 92 Lack of funds rendered the corporation …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Ludlow 5 containing 60 inhabitants. The Leominster canal passes through the township. Woolhampton (St. Peter) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The small river Devon, and the Nottingham and Grantham canal, pass through the parish. The living is a rectory, … pleasantly situated on the river, and the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of … of the river Ouse, and intersected by the Grand Junction canal, comprises about 600 acres. The inhabitants are partly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the supply of the inhabitants. The Wilts and Berks canal passes within half a mile to the south of the town, and … hilly, and the scenery diversified. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the parish. The living is a rectory, … the Dowager Lady Smythe, in the year 1814. The Stratford canal passes through the parish. The living is a discharged …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with thatch or stone slate. The opening of the Oxford canal in the late 18th century led to increased use of brick …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was a track called Mud Lane in 1997. 5 The Kennet & Avon canal was built across the parish c. 1807 and was opened … there is another lock in the east part of the parish. The canal was restored in the 1970s and the locks were reopened … Railway, built parallel to and immediately south of the canal, was opened across the parish in 1862. Since 1906 it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been erected on the banks of the Worcester and Birmingham canal and the Severn, and a considerable trade is carried on … hops, of which there are plantations in the vicinity. The canal affords great facility of communication between … by means of an iron tramway, with the Leominster canal; and again at Pensax, where the small refuse is partly …