Page:Rivers, Canals, Railways of Great Britain.djvu/677



WARWICK AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL.
33 George III. Cap. 38, Royal Assent 6th March, 1793.

36 George III. Cap. 42, Royal Assent 24th March, 1796.

THIS canal commences at Saltisford, in the borough of Warwick, and from thence runs in a north-westerly direction, passing Budbrook and Bowington, to Kingswood, where it is joined by the Lapworth Branch of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal; it then pursues a northerly course, passing by Knowle and Henwood Hall to Henwood Wharf, where it again turns off to the north-west, and passing by Olton End and Kingsford, and crossing a small part of Worcestershire, near Yardley, it joins the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham Canal at the town of Birmingham.

The act of parliament authorizing this undertaking was passed in 1793, and is entitled,' An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from, or nearly from., a Place called The Saltisford, in the parish of Saint Mary, in the borough of Warwick, unto or near to the parish of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, and to terminate at or near to a certain navigable Canal in or near to the town of Birmingham, called the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigations.' It incorporates the subscribers by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal Navigation," and empowers them to raise amongst themselves, for the purposes of the act, time sum of £100,000, in one thousand shares of £100 each, and if necessary, a further sum of £30,000, and to take the following