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ADDENDA.

Ashby de la ASHBY DE LA ZOUCH CANAL.

Zouch

Canal.

Description of a Canal from the Coventry Canal at Mars on-Bridge , in the County of Warwick , to Afihy de la Zouch inthe County of Leicefer , with branches to Swadlincote y theLime Works at Ticknall y Cloud Hill , &c. 34 Geo. III.

Ch. 93.

THIS canal joins the Coventry Canal at Marston Bridge,about two miles to the south of Nuneaton, and taking an eas-terly course passes Hinckley, from whence it takes a northcourse and passes Stoke Golding, Dadlington, through Bof-worth Field, and within a mile of Market Bosworth, afterwhich it crosses the river Sence, and passing to the east of Gop-fal Park, arrives at Snareston, where is a small tunnel, fromwhence the canal winds along and passes Meastiam, Oke-thorpe, and over Ashby Woulds, whence passing throughBlackfordby it reaches the north west fide of Ashby de laZouch; the canal is then continued about one mile and a halfbeyond the town, where passing a tunnel of near one mile, abranch bends to the west and goes to Ticknall; another branchgoes to the east and finishes at the lime works at Cloud Hill;on the Ticknall branch near the commencement is a short cutto the lime works at Staunton; there is also a branch on thenorth edge of Ashby Woulds, which goes to the coal w orksat Swadlincote; the total length of this canal with thebranches, is fifty miles, with two hundred and sifty-two feetlockage.

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