Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOUTH CANAL

LOUTH CANAL, a canal in Lincolnshire; commencing at the town of Louth, and going 14 miles northnorth-eastward to the mouth of the Humber at Tetney lock. It was formed in 1761-3, at a cost of £28,000; it has a fall of 56½ feet; and it gives water-communication from Louth to Hull, and to all the ramifications from the Humber.


(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: Lincolnshire AncC

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