Shrewsbury Canal, Shropshire
Historical Description
Shrewsbury Canal, a canal in Salop, from the river Severn at Shrewsbury eastward, past Uffington, Withington, and Eyton to Wappenshall, where it joins the Newport branch of the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal, and thence into junction with the Donnington Canal near Wombridge. It was formed in 1793, is 18 miles long, was sold to the Shropshire Union railway company, and is now the property of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal company.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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