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The company are to build, at their own cost, a sufficient bridge over the Rochdale Canal in Failsworth, and another over the Ashton-under-Lyne Canal from Manchester to Hollinwood. Lords of manors may erect wharfs and warehouses, and if they refuse, the company may do so, and charge the following

WHARFAGE AND WAREHOUSING RATES.
And so on, advancing Sixpence per Ton additional.

This railway which was expected to be of great utility in conveying coals from Greenacre Moor to Manchester, and merchandize throughout the populous district on its line, turns out not to answer the expectations of the proprietors; and it is reported that all or a considerable part of it will be abandoned. It is to commence, as before stated, in St. George's Road, Manchester; thence pursuing a north-easterly course and running nearly parallel with the turnpike-road, is to terminate at Mumps Brook, about half a mile on the east side of Oldham.

MANSFIELD AND PINXTON RAILWAY.
57 George III. Cap. 37, Royal Assent 16th June, 1817.

THE Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, commencing in the town of Mansfield, proceeds from thence in a westerly direction, leaving Skegby Hall, Unwins Hall and Brook House on the north, to Pinxton Basin near to Pinxton Mills, and not far from Alfreton in the county of Derby, where it communicates with a branch of the Cromford Canal; about a mile and a half from this point a branch passes easterly towards Codnor Park Works, which it passes, and communicates again with the Cromford Canal at a short distance from those works, at 278½ feet above the level of the sea.