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 ' and complete the same; and for amending the Act of Parliament passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal,' which empowers the company to raise a further sum of £50,000 to carry on their work, by a creation of one thousand half shares of £50 each.

This canal is one of the great lines of communication between Lancashire and London; by its connection with the Oxford Canal, through the Warwick and Napton, and thence with the Grand Junction Canal, near Braunston, it not only opens a communication between London and Birmingham and the neighbouring commercial towns, but is a means, by its other connections, of conveying the trade between London, Liverpool and Manchester; in addition to which, it affords a cheap and plentiful supply of coal to Warwick, Leamington and the neighbourhood, and therefore cannot fail to remunerate the proprietors.

WARWICK AND NAPTON CANAL.
34 George III. Cap. 38, Royat Assent 28th March, 1794.

36 George III. Cap. 95, Royal Assent 14th May, 1796.

49 George III. Cap. 72, Royal Assent 20th May, 1809.

THIS canal, commencing at the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the parish of Budbrook, runs in an easterly direction, leaving the city of Warwick on the south, and passing by Leamington Prior's, Radford, Long Itchington and Stockton, it joins the Oxford Canal near Napton-on-the-Hill. In its course, which is about fourteen miles in length, it crosses the River Avon near Warwick by an aqueduct bridge, and near Radford and Long Itchington there are other smaller aqueducts.

The first act of parliament relating to this canal was passed in 1794, and entitled,' An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, out of, and from, the Warwick and Birmingham Canal now cutting, or intended to be cut, in the parish of Budbrook, in the county of Warwick, into the Oxford Canal, in the parish of Braunston, in time county of Northampton.' It incorporates the subscribers to the undertaking, by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Warwick and Braunston Canal