Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation, Derived from Original and Parliamentary Do Cuments |
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Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great ... Joseph Priestley No preview available - 2017 |
Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great ... Joseph Priestley No preview available - 2015 |
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act of parliament Act to enable act was obtained amending amongst aqueduct authorized Avon basin Birmingham Canal borrow branch Bricks Bridge Canal Company Canal Navigation carried Cinders Coal Coke collateral Cut collieries commences commissioners Company of Proprietors course Coventry Canal Culm cut or canal distance ditto Dudley Canal Dung empowered to raise enable the Company entitled Erewash Canal execution feet following TONNAGE RATES furlongs further sum George George III George IV Grand Junction Canal half Harbour inches Iron Iron-stone land Lime Lime-stone Liverpool locks main line maintaining a navigable Manure Mersey miles and three Mill mortgage navigable Canal Oxford Canal parish Port present Majesty Railway River River Dee River Severn River Trent River Weaver Roads Royal Assent seven shares of 100 Slate Stone Stratford-upon-Avon Canal subscribers termination Thames thence Tiles Timber tolls Tons town Trent tunnel Vessels Wares and Merchandize WHARFAGE RATES yards
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Page 469 - Oath required by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the Reign of King...
Page 603 - An act for making and maintaining a railway from the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of the town of Newcastleupon-Tyne, to North Shields, in the county of Northumberland, with a branch thereout in the county of Northumberland.
Page 15 - The British North America Act, 1867," it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for Us...
Page 14 - An act to enable the undertakers of the navigation of the rivers Aire and Calder, in the West Riding of the county of York, to make a navigable cut or canal from...
Page 239 - ' An Act ' for making and maintaining a navigable canal from the city of ' Coventry, to communicate upon Tradley Heath, in the county ' of Stafford, with a canal now making between the rivers Trent
Page 637 - An Act to enable the company of proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey...
Page 90 - An Act to enable the most noble Francis Duke of Bridgewater, to make a navigable cut or Canal, from or near Worsley Mill, over the River Irwell, to the Town of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and to or near Longford Bridge, in the Township of Stretford in the said County.
Page 418 - Manchester railway to alter the line of the said railway, and for amending and enlarging the powers and provisions of the several Acts relating thereto.
Page 107 - An Act for maintaining an existing public railway from the summit of the hill above Churchway Engine in the forest of Dean to Cinderford Bridge, and for making public a private railway from thence to the river Severn at or near Bullo Pill, all in the county of Gloucester; and for amending an Act of his late majesty relating to the said railways.
Page 543 - Navigation at or near Sowerby Bridge Wharf, ' in the parish of Halifax, in the West Riding of the county of ' York, to join the Canal of his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater, in ' the parish of Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster ; and ' also certain Cuts from the said intended Canal;, whereby certain persons were incorporated as " The Company of Proprietors of " the Rochdale Canal,