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A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic : containing a complete account of the canals already executed in England, with considerations on those projected, to which are added, practical observations / by J. Phillips
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Warwickand Bir-minghamCanal.

The line of connection this canal will complete is of greatimportance, by it, and the Grand Junction Canal, all the va-rious produce navigated on the Derbyshire and Yorkshirecanals, the Grand Trunk and the River Trent, will have aready access to the London market; besides passing through avery populous country where land carriage causes many ofthe necessaries of life to be dear. The inhabitants of the po-pulous towns of Leicesser and Northampton are particularlyinterested in carrying this scheme into complete execution.

WARWICK AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL.

Description of a Canal from the Borough of Warwick to the

Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at Birmingham , 33 Geo. III.Ch. 38.

THIS canal commences on the western side of the town ofWarwick and passes Budbrook, Hatton, Rowington, BadesteyClinton, Knowle, Solihull, Yardley, and joins the Digbethbranch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal on the easternside of Birmingham, being a course of about twenty-fivemiles.

The proprietors of this undertaking are incorporated by thename of " The Company of Proprietors of the Warwickand Birmingham Canal Navigation,” with the necessary pow-ers for completing the fame. By mutual agreement, a junc-tion may be made with the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, oncondition of making this canal on a level with that part of theBirmingham and Fazeley Canal where the junction shall beformed, and never drawing the mater lower than four feet

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