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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… &c, and much of it is exported by means of the Avon navigation. Brick-clay, gravel, sand, and marl, exist in … the higher part of its course through the county; but the navigation, though of great benefit and importance, is … is that branch of the Grand Trunk which unites the navigation of the Severn with the water communication between …
A History of the County of Essex
… but fled into the Mere when pursued. 43 The River Stour Navigation Co. made the Stour navigable for barges from … of competition from the rail- ways, and by 1878 the Navigation Co. no longer used the part of the Stour in … Q/SBb 430/1. Ibid. T/A 200/5; J.S. Hull, 'The River Stour Navigation Co.', Suff. Institute of Arch. xxxii. 250; W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The living is a rectory, valued … Worsley is eminently celebrated in connexion with inland navigation. In the 10th of George II., an act was obtained …
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 …