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The object of this railway and branches, is to convey, with facility, for shipment on the Severn, the timber, coal, iron-ore, and other minerals, with which the Forest of Dean abounds, thus enabling the owners to transport their superabundant produce to distant markets.  {{c|

BURE OR NORTH RIVER.
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 * 13 George III. Cap. 37, Royal Assent 7th April, 1773

THE River Bure rises a few miles north of the town of Foulsham; it thence pursues an easterly course by Thurningbeck Hall, Blickling Park, to the town of Aylsham, to which place, from the head of the Bure Navigation at Coltishall, it was made navigable under the authority of an act of 13th George III. entitled,  'An Act for making and extending the Navigation of the River Bure, commonly called the North River, by and from Coltishall, to Aylsham Bridge, in the county of Norfolk.'  The length of this portion of the navigation is nine miles, with six locks, and it is in the natural course of the stream, with the exception of a few short cuts, made for the purpose of cutting off some bends of the river, or for passing the mills upon it.

This navigation is under the management of commissioners, whose qualification is the possession of freehold or copyhold estates in the hundreds of North and South Erpingham, Taverham, Eynsford, and Tunstead, in the county of Norfolk, of the annual value of £100, or a personal estate of £3,000; any seven of whom, whose usual place of residence is in any of the hundreds above-named, are empowered to act. They are authorized to borrow £5,000, for the purpose of carrying the powers of this act into execution, on security of the tolls therein granted.