An act for making and maintaining a navigable canal, within and from certain lands, belonging to Thomas Talbor Foley esquire, in the parish of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, : to join and communicate with the Stourbridge navigation, at a place called Black Delph, upon Pensnet Chace, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the county of Stafford | Collections | The Huntington

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An act for making and maintaining a navigable canal, within and from certain lands, belonging to Thomas Talbor Foley esquire, in the parish of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, : to join and communicate with the Stourbridge navigation, at a place called Black Delph, upon Pensnet Chace, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the county of Stafford

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Description: Engraved map titled "A plan of the continuation of a proposed collateral cut or branch to communicate with the intended canal from Stourbridge to the canal from the Trent to the Severn near Stourton from a place called Black Delfe in the parish of Kingswinford in the county of Stafford, to an estate of Thos. Talbot Foley Esqr. called Netherton in the parish of Dudley and county of Worcester" signed "Engrav'd by W. Faden successor to the late Mr. Thos. Jefferys, Charing Cross." Not in ESTC. Also issued as part of a larger work. Cf. ESTC N57657. Signatures: A-Q² R²(R1+chi1).
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [1776]
Call number: 613824
Creator: Great Britain(Opens in new tab)

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