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1799, being the same year in which the per- 

 ambulation of the boundaries between the 

 Longden Dale and the Glossop Dale estates 

 took place. Broadbottom bridge also was 

 widened and enlarged, with improved ap- 

 proaches, under Mr. White's and my own in- 

 spection. 



The bridge called " "WooUey bridge," which 

 leads from Glossop Dale into the township of 

 HoUingworth, was rebuilt under the inspec- 

 tion of John White, Esq., of Park Hall, and 

 myself, during my residence at Taxall. The 

 sole hability to the reconstruction of this 

 bridge, of the county of Derby, having been 

 proved to the satisfaction of the chairman 

 (the late Lord Vernon) and Court of Quarter 

 Sessions at Derby, orders were given for 

 its being rebuilt under our inspection, and 

 the plans and estimates, etc., furnished to us ; 

 my colleague however, on casting his eye over 

 them, called my notice to one, which he at 

 once detected as questionable. It was a sum 



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