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Shrewsbury SHREWSBURY CANAL.

Canal.

Description of a Canal from Shrewsbury to Rockwardine Wood ,in the County of Salop , there to communicate with the Shrop-fiire Canal. 33 Geo. III. Ch. 113.

THIS canal commences on the east side of Shrewsbury,and winding with the Severn passes Uffington, whence it runsparallel with the river Tern, and passes Upton Forge, Withing-ton, Rodington, where it crosses the river Roden, and after alittle crosses the river Tern at Long Mill, passes Langdon,Evton, crosses the Ketley Brook at Rockwardine Wood, andthere joins the Donnington Wood and the Shropshire canals.The total length is seventeen miles and a half; with onehundred and forty-feven feet rife in the five miles betweenLangdon and Wombridge; the rest is level.

The proprietors of this canal are empowered to purchaseone mile and one hundred and eighty-eight yards of Mr.Reynolds's or the Ketley Canal, for the sum of 840I. being amoiety os the original cost. The same afterwards to be con-sidered as part of the Shrewsbury canal, the junction is formed .at Wombridge, it must therefore be considered as a collateralcut. Mr. Reynolds to be charged two-pence per ton per milefor all goods which pass on this canal; this not to affect goodswhich pass on the Ketley canal only.

The proprietors of this canal are incorporated under the"name of “ The company of Proprietors of the Shrewsbury Canal

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