■6So * CANAL. 
Rofs, Holme upon Spalding.moor, Frogga'thorpe, Grib- 
thorpe, Spa’.dington, Burfea, Hafholm, Wholfea, North¬ 
'd iff, South-Cliff, Hotham-Houghton, Brotnfleet, Flax- 
fleet, Shipton, Sanfton, and alfo a common called Whal- 
ling-Fenn, containing 20,000 acres. 'Foils to be taken, 
not exceeding four (hillings for every ton of grocery goods, 
wares, and merchandifes ; two (hillings for every chaldron 
ot coals, containing thirty-two bulhels ; one (billing and 
fix-pence for every chaldron of lime of thirty-two bulh¬ 
els ; one (hilling for every ton of (tone ; fix-pence for every 
ton of manure; two (hillings for every thonfand of tiles; 
one (hilling for every thonfand of bricks ; and eight-pence 
for every pack of wool, containing fixteen ftone to each 
pack ; to be paid in proportion of the difiance ; the whole 
being payable from the Humber to Market-Weighton. 
No tolls to be paid by boats for pleafure, or veflels laden 
with materials for the purpofe of drainage or navigation. 
This canal has proved greatly to the advantage of tIre 
land-owners and proprietors, not only in draining the lands, 
but by facilitating the carriage of the produce and ma¬ 
nufactures of a large extent of country, which before were 
conveyed at a very great expence by land-carriage. 
Sir Nigel Gresley’s Canal. 
In 1775, an aft was granted to enable Sir Nigel Grefley, 
Bart, and Nigel Bowyer Grelley, Efq. his (bn, to make a 
navigable canal from certain coal-mines in Apedale to 
Newcaftle-under-Line, in the countv of Stafford. The 
proprietors engaged- to deliver coals from their coal-mines, 
at the town of Newcaftle-under-Line, at the price of five 
(hillings for each ton of zoewt. of fix (core pounds avoir¬ 
dupois, for a term of twenty-one years; and for five (hil¬ 
lings and fix-pence per ton tor a further term of twenty- 
one years after the expiration of the (aid firfr-mentioned 
term, and fo -in proportion for any greater or (mailer quan¬ 
tity than a ton. And they alfo obliged themfelves to keep 
a (lock at their wharf at Newcaftle lufficient for the con- 
fumption of the town, under the penalty of 40!. and, if 
any of the inhabitants want a 1 e(s quantity than a ton, they 
are to be delivered to them at 3^d. per hundred-weight of 
Fix fcore. 
Hereford, and Gloucester Canal. 
This canal begins at Hereford, and erodes the river 
Lugg, below Smton St. Michael and Sutton St. Nicholas; 
whence it purfues an eafterly courfe, by Weft-Hide, Can- 
non-Froome, Mund'ey; erodes the river Leadon below 
Bofbury, and purfues a foutherly courfe, by Ledbury, 
Dinningtor;, to Dim mock ; about two mites below Led¬ 
bury it again erodes to the weft fide of the river Leadon : 
from Dinunock it purfues an eafterly courfe for about four 
miles, and twice erodes the river Leadon, and paffes by 
Pauntley-Upleadon, Newent, (at three miles diftance,) 
Rudford, and Laffington; again it erodes the river Lea¬ 
don, and a branch of the Severn, thence acrofs Alney- 
illand, and into the Severn, oppofite Gloucefter; the total 
length to Hereford being thirty-five miles five furlongs, 
with 225 feet eight inches lockage. The collateral cut to 
Newent is three miles Ls-ng, with a fall of ten feet to the 
junction. At the beginning of this canal, near Hereford, 
there is a tunnel of 440 yards ; and another about the mid¬ 
dle of the fummit, 1320 yards long. The rates are: For 
coal, two-pence per ton per mile ; for dung and other ma¬ 
nure, bricks, lime-ftone, and other ftones, (except block- 
done,) and clay, one penny per ton per mile; for corn, 
grain, meal, &c. (except hops and woo!,) from Hereford 
or from Ledbury to the junction with the Severn, three 
(hillings and fix-pence per ton. For the fame goods fioin 
any other part of the canal or collateral cut, to the Se¬ 
vern, two-pence halfpenny per ton per mile. For corn, 
grain, meal, block-done, hops, wool, &c. not fpecified, 
three-pence per ton per mile. Goods palling between He¬ 
reford and Ledbury pay tonnage for half a mile lefs than 
the aCtual diftance. The line of this canal is very advan¬ 
tageous to the country through which it paffes: by it a 
communication is opened for tire collieries in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Newent, and other trafts of land pqffelling 
large and valuable mines or coal, and with feveral lime- 
ftone quarries ; and not only the vicinity of Hereford, but 
the'interior of South Wales, is much benefited, as thereby 
a continued water-carriage may be had to the feveral ports 
of London, Briftol, Liverpool, and Hull, to the great im¬ 
provement of the value of lauds and eftates in the county 
of Hereford, &c. 
^ Kington and Leominster Canal. 
Beginning at Kington, this canal purfues an eafterly 
courfe, and paffes by Stanton and Kingfland, where it 
erodes the river Lugg, and makes a bend to Leominfter ; 
(rom whence it turns, and goes between Eye and Berring- 
ton, by Orleton and Brimfield, where it erodes the river 
Teme, by Little Hereford, Burford, Tenbury, Rochford, 
and Knighton; there it erodes the river Rea, and proceeds 
to Lindridge, Low, and Penfax, through a tunnel to Jones’s 
Hole, and by Arley, there falling into the Severn, juft 
above Stourport. The length is rather more than fony- 
five miles; and the total lockage is 544 feet, viz. 496 feet 
fall, and forty-eight feet rife. On this canal are two tun¬ 
nels ; one near Soufnant of 1230 yards; the other at Pen- 
lax, of 3850 yards. Near Tenbury are two collateral cuts 
for the accommodation of certain mills. The rates allow¬ 
ed are : For timber, ftone, marble, lime, lime-ftone to be 
burnt for manure, iron-done, raw materials, bricks, brick- 
tiles, (late, gravel, fand, clay, manure, and rubbifli, navi¬ 
gated between the Severn and Milton-crofs, near Stanton, 
three-halfpence per ton per mile, and from Miiton-crofs 
to Kington three-pence per ton per mile. For coke and 
charcoal, four-pence per ton per mile. For all coal car¬ 
ried on any part of the canal between the river Rea and 
Leominfter, or between the river Teme and Leominfter, 
three (hillings and four-p'ence per ton per mile. For all 
coal brought on any part of the canal between the river 
Severn'and the river Rea to Leominfter, or between the 
river.Teme and Leominfter, the farther fum of eleven¬ 
pence per ton. For all coals conveyed out of the Severn, 
and navigated to Leominfter, or between there and the ri¬ 
ver Teme, the additional fum of one (hilling and two¬ 
pence per ton, over and above the former rate of three 
(hillings and four-pence. For all coal navigated between 
Leominfter and Milton-crofs, two-pence halfpenny per ton 
per mile. For all coal navigated between Milton-crofs 
and Kington, fix-pence per ton per mile. For all coal na¬ 
vigated on that part of the canal between the rivers Rea 
and Teme, two-pence halfpenny per ton per mile. For 
all coal navigated eaftward, between the rivers Rea and 
Severn, one (hilling and nine-pence per ton. For all coal 
navigated weftward, between the rivers Severn and Rea, 
two-pence halfpenny per ton per mile. For merchandife 
in general navigated between the Severn and Milton-crofs, 
two-pence halfpenny per ton per mile ; and from Milton- 
crofs to Kington, fix-pence per ton per mile. Slack-coal, 
navigated for the purpofe of burning lime for manure, to 
pay but half the accuftomed rates. Proprietors may low¬ 
er the rates. 
The advantages to be expected from the line of this ca¬ 
nal are, an eafy conveyance of coal, lime, and iron-ore, 
thofe neceffary articles to hufbandry and manufactures, 
for which it may be expected the demand will be increafed 
in proportion to the cheapnefs of carriage ; whereby the 
working of the old quarries, &c. will be invigorated, and 
new ones opened ; there being an eafy conveyance by wa¬ 
ter to the ports of London, Briftol, Hull, and Liverpool, 
including an immenfe traCt of manufacturing country. 
Worcester and Birmingham Canal. 
This canal commences at Birmingham; from whence it 
takes a courfe through the parifhes of Kdgbafton, North- 
field, King’s-Norton, Alvechurch, Tardebig, Stoke-Prior, 
Dodderhill, Ilandbury, Had for, Himbleton, Oddingley, 
Tibberton, Ilinlip, Warndon, Clains, St. Martin’s, and, 
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