THE STROUDWATER CANAL
Written by Michael Handford
Published by Alan Sutton
in 1979
ISBN: 0904387305
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THE STROUDWATER CANAL
Written by Michael Handford.
Stock no. 2128652
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Chapters one to seven have been revised from an edition first published in 1976 by Moonraker Press. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. 337 pages including index. ISBN: 0904387305. Some marks to covers. Marks and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter One an Introduction
- Chapter Two River Navigations, Turnpike Roads and The "Favourite Project"
- Chapter Three Cloth and Clothiers
- Chapter Four The First Attempt
- Chapter Five 'His Own Private Navigation'
- Chapter Six The Dallaway Scheme
- Chapter Seven 'A Chimerical, Crack-Brained Fellow'
- Chapter Eight Stroudwater Revived
- Chapter Nine 'A Great Concourse of Spectators'
- Chapter Ten 'The Battle of Carters Close'
- Chapter Eleven Parliamentary Procedures
- Chapter Twelve The New Act
- Chapter Thirteen The Purchase of Lands
- Chapter Fourteen The Purchase of Lands Contd
- Chapter Fifteen Men and Materials
- Chapter Sixteen Carters Close to Bristol Road
- Chapter Seventeen Bristol Road to Chippenham Platt
- Chapter Eighteen Chippenham Platt to Ryeford
- Chapter Nineteen Ryeford to Wallbridge
- Chapter Twenty 'Stroudwater Triumphant'
- Appendix
- Index