http://beercrocombe.org/The%20Chard%20Canal.pdf WebThe Westport Canal was completed in 1840 as part of the the 1836 and 1839 Acts for the navigation of the River Parrett. Prior to 1836 there was substantial barge traffic on the River Parrett from Bridgwater to Langport and when conditions permitted further upstream. As a result of the Langport riverhead the town was prosperous and when in 1834 ...

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WebChard had been an important commercial centre in the eighteenth century, based on linen drapery, shoemaking, wool and machine-made lace and cloth manufacture; during the canal age, a canal was built to connect the town to the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael. It was completed in 1842 but it was never commercially viable. The Chard Canal was a 13.5 miles (21.7 km) tub boat canal in Somerset, England, that ran from the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal at Creech St. Michael, over four aqueducts, through three tunnels and four inclined planes to Chard. It was completed in 1842, was never commercially viable, and closed in 1868. The … See more Prior to the construction of the canal, there had been several plans over the previous 50 years to build a ship canal from the Bristol Channel to the English Channel, in order to avoid the route around Cornwall and Devon. The … See more The Chard reservoir, which was the main supply for the canal, was sold to Lord Poulett. In 1990, South Somerset District Council bought it, and it is now a designated nature … See more • United Kingdom portal • Transport portal • Canals of the United Kingdom • History of the British canal system See more Media related to Chard Canal at Wikimedia Commons • Index to photographs Somerset County Council's Historic Environment Record • "Photos of the remains of the inclines" See more With the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal having opened in 1827, there was further initiative to link Chard to it, and James Green carried … See more The canal was designed for tub-boats which were 26 by 6.5 feet (7.9 by 2.0 m). The inclines at Thornfalcon, Wrantage and Ilminster were double-acting inclines, consisting of two parallel tracks, each containing a six-wheeled caisson, in which the boats floated. A See more • Dunning, Robert (1983). A History of Somerset. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. ISBN 978-0-85033-461-6. • Hadfield, Charles (1967). The Canals of South West England. David and Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4176-6. See more la jacke

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WebThis site lists close to 100 rivers in Somerset including the waters of Exmoor and is my attempt to record a history and pictorial account of these watercourses.The site currently (October 2024) includes in excess of 18000 photographs, 1600 separate bridge records and a growing list of watermills and mill streams. River Barle – Cornham Brake. WebChard Canal The memory of earlier schemes. ... at Chard (see inset map, centre page) It is strange. today to think of how ships might have been seen passing along the Furnham … WebChard Canal map. This is a route-map template for a UK waterway. For a key to symbols, see the Waterways legend. For information on using this template, refer to … lajackparis