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 The group connected with the Wash are river navigations having a total length of 330 miles. The most important being

Ouse and its Tributaries …150 miles.

This Navigation has no less than nine toll taking bodies, having power to exact tolls on different parts of its length.

The Severn Group contains among others:—

The Gloucester and Berkeley is a Ship Canal and will not be further described.

The Avon Navigation is owned by the Gt. Western Railway Co., and forms part of one of the two routes from the Severn to the Thames.

The Severn Navigation is an independent Canal, but 40 miles of waterway above Stourport have become derelict, and thus only about 54 miles remain in use.