The Stroudwater Canal A History
eBook - ePub

The Stroudwater Canal A History

A History

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eBook - ePub

The Stroudwater Canal A History

A History

About this book

The Stroudwater Navigation holds a unique place in the fascinating history of Britain's canal network. First planned in 1729, it was one of the oldest successful canal schemes, predating the Bridgwater Canal by a generation. In continuous ownership of the Company of proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation, it is also the oldest canal company in the world. With the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1750, the canal can lay claim to the first use of a canal as a leisure resource in the world too. From the building of Blunder Lock, deliberately at the wrong level, to the Battle of Carter's Close, where locals would infill the canal at night as the contractors dug it out by day, Michael Handford tells the story of the Stroudwater in this new edition of his classic work on the canal. Much has happened on the canal since the book was written and it is now being restored to its former glory, when it will yet again break records as a unique survivor of the canal age.

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Information

Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781445619613
Edition
0
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Abbreviations used in the Text
  4. The Stroudwater Canal: A Chronology
  5. Consulting Engineers, Engineers and Surveyors, Under Surveyors, Clerks, Treasurers and Lock-Keepers
  6. The Stroudwater Canal: Locks
  7. Chapter One: An Introduction
  8. Chapter Two: River Navigations, Turnpike Roads and The ‘Favourite Project’
  9. Chapter Three: Cloth and Clothiers
  10. Chapter Four: The First Attempt
  11. Chapter Five: ‘His Own Private Navigation’
  12. Chapter Six: The Dallaway Scheme
  13. Chapter Seven: ‘A Chimerical, Crack-Brained Fellow’
  14. Chapter Eight: Stroudwater Revived
  15. Chapter Nine: ‘A Great Concourse of Spectators’
  16. Chapter Ten: ‘The Battle of Carters Close’
  17. Chapter Eleven: Parliamentary Proceedures
  18. Chapter Twelve: The New Act
  19. Chapter Thirteen: The Purchase of Lands
  20. Chapter Fourteen: The Purchase of Lands (continued)
  21. Chapter Fifteen: Men and Materials
  22. Chapter Sixteen: Carters Close to Bristol Road
  23. Chapter Seventeen: Bristol Road to Chippenham Platt
  24. Chapter Eighteen: Chippenham Platt to Ryeford
  25. Chapter Nineteen: Ryeford to Wallbridge
  26. Chapter Twenty: ‘Stroudwater Triumphant’
  27. Chapter Twenty-One: Restoration, Retrospective and Prospective
  28. Appendix