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This act enables the company to take any water within four hundred yards of the line of the canal, and three years are allowed for the execution of these works, if not then done, the powers to cease, excepting as to such parts as may have been completed. The tonnage rates remain as in the former act.

The object of this canal was to facilitate the communication between the ports of London, Bristol, Bridgewater and Exeter, and to afford a better mode of conveyance for the produce of the agricultural and mineral districts through which it passes; the utility whereof can only be appreciated by that portion of the public which partakes of such important benefits. 

BRIDGEND RAILWAY.
9 George IV. Cap. 92, Royal Assent 19th June, 1828.

THIS line of railway commences at the Duifryn Llynvi and Pwll Cawl Railway, near the village of Ceffn Gribbwr, in the parish of Laleston, and proceeds in an eastwardly course to the River Ogmore, over which it crosses at a short distance south of the church of St. Bride's Minor, and thence proceeds, in the same direction, on the east bank of the same river, to the town of Bridgend, where it terminates.

The act for making this railway, is entitled,  'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the Dufryn Llynvi and Pwll Cawl, otherwise Porth Cawl Railway, to commence at a certain point therein, in the parish of Laleston, in the county of Glamorgan, and to terminate near to the town of Bridgend, in the same county.'  The subscribers, at the time the act was obtained, were thirty-three in number, amongst whom were