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BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL JUNCTION CANAL.
7 George IV. Cap. 95, Royal Assent 26th May, 1826.

7 &amp; 8 George IV. Cap. 2, Royal Assent 21st March, 1827.

This line of canal, which is now in the course of execution, commences in the summit level of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, near Tettenhall, about one mile from Autherley, the place where the Birmingham Canal communicates with the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. Its course is to the north west, upon a level with the last-mentioned canal, by Chillington Part, Stretton Hall, and Little Onn Hall, where there is a lock, with a fall of 7 feet 3 inches, and which is the summit level, at a distance of eleven miles and a quarter from the commencement. From thence it continues, by the village of Cowley, for the distance of four miles and a half, on the same level, to near the village of Norbury, where the Newport Branch commences: from thence it continues for the further distance of nine miles and a half to the second lock, so that this canal is extended through the country a distance of twenty-five miles and a half, with only one lock. From the second lock, the canal is continued, in a northerly course, by Cheswardine Hill, to the town of Drayton, crossing the River Tarn; hence by the Brine Spring, near Adderley Hall, to the town of Audlem, in Cheshire; then, crossing the River Weaver, it proceeds by the Salt Springs, and by the town of Nantwich, to the United Navigation of the Ellesmere and Chester Canals, near Dorfold Hall, about three quarters of a mile north-west of the last-mentioned town.

The length from the second lock, to its termination at the above-mentioned navigation, is thirteen miles and a half, with a fall of 167½ feet, by twenty-six locks, thus disposed-from the second to the fifth lock, is a distance of half a mile; between the fifth and the sixth, it is nearly four miles; in the next half mile are five locks; then a pool of one mile and a quarter; in the following mile are eleven locks; in the next four miles are four locks; then a pool, of nearly three miles; and within one-tenth of a mile further, two locks; the remaining distance to the Chester