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ADDENDA.

Manchesterand OldhamCanal.

Wyrley and

Ellington

Canal.

This canal and branches will supply the town of Manchesterwith coals and cannel (which are essential to the manufactures ofManchester), and also with stone ; and will supply the countrythrough which it passes, with lime and manure for the improve-ments of estates, &c.

WYRLEY and ESSINGTON CANAL.

Description of a Canal from Wyrley Bank , in the County of Stafford ,to communicate 'with the Birmingham and Birmingham andFazeley Canals near Wolverhampton , with Collateral Cuts toStow Heath and Afhmore Park. 1792.

THIS canal commences at a place called Wyrley Bank ; passesthrough the Old Field, over Ellington Wood and the Snead Com-mons, across the road from Wednesfield to Bloxwich ; fromthence, on the south side of Bloxwich, in a direct line to Birchill.From Snead Common the canal goes through Lane Head, nearPerry Hall ; from thence to Lapley Hayes, near the Moat House,to Wednesfield, by Wednesfield Heath, and there joins the Bir-mingham canal. The branches are—one from near Wolver-hampton to Stow Heath, another from the canal at Pool Hayesinto Alhmore Park, with another from Lapley Hayes into an-other part of Alhmore Park.

The length of this canal I judge to be eight or nine miles; butnot having a plan before me, am unable to give the exact mea-sure, or the lockage.

The width of ground allowed for the canal, towing-path, &c.is twenty-six yards. The proprietors are impowered to raise forthe works twenty-five thousand pounds, and, if not sufficient,twenty thousand pounds more, by call or mortgage. The rates

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