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LEOMINSTER, OR KINGTON AND LEOMINSTER CANAL.
31 Geo. III. C. 69, R. A. 13th May. 1791.

36 Geo. III. Cap. 70, R. A. 26th April, 1796.

43 Geo. III. C. 141, R. A. 11th Aug. 1803.

7 Geo. IV. Cap. 94, R. A. 26th May, 1826.

THE Leominster, or as it has sometimes been called the Kington and Leominster Canal, commences at the town of Kington, 505½ feet above the sea, where it meets the Kington Railway; from that place, pursuing an easterly direction, it passes by the seats of Eywood, Titley, Staunton Park and Shobdon Court to the aqueduct over the River Lugg at Kingsland, from which point it bends towards the south to near the town of Leominster; from Leominster it runs almost due north for a considerable distance past Berrington House, then making a detour to the east, it continues its course in that direction, with many windings, past Tenbury to the aqueduct over the Rea River, and the adjoining tunnel at Sousant; from the tunnel, which is 264½ feet above the level of the sea, it pursues an easterly direction to Stourport, where it unites with the Severn and the Stafford and Worcester Canal, having traversed a distance of forty-six miles. From Kington to Staunton Park it is level for four miles; from Staunton Park to Milton two miles and a half with a fall of 152 feet; from that place to Kingsland Aqueduct three miles and a half with 37 feet fall; from the aqueduct to Leominster four miles and a half with 64 feet fall; in one mile and a half from Leominster there is a rise of 18 feet; the next five miles and a half to Wiston is level; from Wiston to Letwich Brook four miles and a half with a fall of 36 feet; from Letwich Brook to the Rea there is a level of seven miles; from this point to the Sousant Tunnel there is a rise of 35 feet in the length of a mile; from this tunnel to the east end of the Great Pensax Tunnel nine miles and level; from the east end of this tunnel to the junction of the Severn and the Stafford and Worcester Canal, being above three miles, there is a fall of 207 feet. The total length therefore, as above stated, is forty-six miles, and the lockage 544 feet, being 496 feet of fall and 48 of rise. In the line there are two considerable tunnels; the one