Chester Canal, Cheshire
Historical Description
Chester Canal, a canal in Cheshire, 19 miles 88 chains in length, owned by the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and leased by the L. & N.W.R. It extends from Nantwich, where it joins the Birmingham Canal, to Harleston Junction, where it connects with the Ellesmere Canal, thence to Barbridge Junction through Calveley, Banbury, and Bees-ton, joining the Wirral line of the Ellesmere Canal at Chester, and also connecting with the river Dee at that point.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online: