A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
THAMES AND SEVERN CANAL, a canal of Gloucester and Wilts; connecting the navigation of the Thames with that of the Severn. It begins in a junction with the Stroudwater canal at Walbridge, near Stroud; goes sinuously east-by-southward, past Chalford, Sapperton, Siddington, South Cerney, Latton, and Kempsford, to the Thames at Lechlade; rises 243 feet, with 28 locks, to Sapperton; traverses there a tunnel, 2½ miles long; falls thence 134 feet, with 14 locks, to Lechlade; approaches near the source of the Thames between Sapperton and Siddington; sends off a branch of 1 mile from Siddington to Cirencester; is joined by the North Wilts canal at Latton; has a total length of 30 miles, and a width of 42 feet; and was formed in 1783-92.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a canal" (ADL Feature Type: "canals") |
| Administrative units: | Gloucestershire AncC Wiltshire AncC |
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