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Her? fordand

Gloucester

Canal.

HEREFORD and GLOUCESTER CANAL.

A Description of the Canal from Hereford to Cloucefler , •with aCollateral Cut to Newe tit. Jos. Clowes , Engineer. Richard Hall rSurveyor . 179*.

IN 1791 an act of parliament was obtained for making theabove canal, which has the following course.—Beginning at Here-ford, it goes northerly, and crosses tire river Lugg, below SuttonSt. Michael, and Sutton St. Nicholas; whence it pursues an easterlycourse, by West-Hide, Cannon-Froome, Munsley; crosses theriver Leadon below Bofbury, and pursues a southerly courie, byLedbury, Dinnington, to Dimmock; about two miles belowLedbury it again crosses to the west side of the river Leadon tfrom Dimmock it pursues an easterly course for about four miles,,and twice crosses the river Leadon, and passes by PauntleyITpleadon, Newent (at three miles distance), Rudford, and Las-sington; again it crosses the river Leadon, and a branch of theSevern ; thence across Alney Island, and into the Severn, oppositeGloucester. The length and lockage are as follow :—FromWidemarfh, near Hereford, to Withington-marfh, is six miles,and level. From thence to the beginning of the summit, nearMonkhide, is three miles, with thirty feet rife. The summit con-tinues eight miles and a half, to Ledbury, and is level. Fromthence to Gloucester eighteen miles, with a fall of one hundredand ninety-five feet seven inches—Making the total length toHereford thirty-five miles five furlongs, with two hundred andtwenty-five feet eight inches lockage. The collateral cut to New-ent is three miles long, with a fall of ten feet to the junction. Atthe beginning of this canal, near Hereford, there is a tunnel offour hundred and forty yards; and another about the middle of the

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