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MARKET HARBOROUGH TO STAMFORD CANAL


This record is held by Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office

Reference: QS72/13 

Title: MARKET HARBOROUGH TO STAMFORD CANAL

Description: Course of Canal:-
 
1) Main Canal from the Union Canal near Market Harborough in the County of Leicester to the Welland Navigation at Stamford in the County of Lincoln, crossing the Leicestershire parishes and townships of:- Great Bowden.
 
2) Reservoirs (2) on the river Welland in the parishes of Husbands Bosworth in the County of Leicester and Hothorpe in the County of Northampton, with feeder cut therefrom to the Union Canal in the parish of Lubenham, crossing the Leicestershire parishes and townships of Husbands Bosworth, Theddingworth and Lubenham.
 

3) Reservoir in the parishes of Boxton, Kibworth Harcourt and West Langton in the County of Leicester, with feeder out therefrom to the Union Canal near its junction with the above Canal to Stamford, in the Parish of Great Bowden, crossing the Leicestershire parishes of West Langton, East Langton and Great Bowden.
 
Plan; Book of Reference.
Date: 29th Sept 1810
Held by: Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office, not available at The National Archives

 QS72/14 29th Sept 1810 MARKET HARBOROUGH TO STAMFORD, SPALDING and PETERBOROUGH CANAL

Course of Canal:-
 
1) Main Canal from the Union Canal near Market Harborough in the County of Leicester, to the River Welland at Stamford in the County of Lincoln, and improved Navigation of River Welland from Stamford to Spalding in the County of Lincoln, crossing the Leicestershire parish of Great Bowden.
 
2) Branch Canal from the River Welland at the North Fen, Deeping St. James in the County of Lincoln to the River Nene at Peterborough in the County of Northampton.
 
3) Reservoirs (2) on the River Welland in the parishes of Husbands Bosworth in the County of Leicester and Hothorpe in the County of Northampton, with the feeder channel therefrom to the Union Canal in the parish of Lubenham, crossing the Leicestershire parishes and townships of:- Husbands Bosworth, Theddingworth and Lubenham.
 
4) Reservoir in the parishes of Foxton, West Langton and Kibworth Harcourt in the County of Leicester, with a feeder channel therefrom crossing the Leicestershire Parishes of West and East Langton and Great Bowden to the Union Canal, near its junction with the above Canal to Stamford.
 
5) Feeder Channel crossing the parishes or Townships of Werrington and Paston to the above Branch Canal from Deeping to Peterborough, in the County of Northampton.
 

Plan; Book of Reference.

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