the level of the sea, in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and after a navigable course of one hundred and seventy-eight miles, with a fall of 225 feet from Welshpool, through the counties of Montgomery, Salop, Worcester and Gloucester, it empties itself into the Bristol Channel.
There is a handsome stone bridge over this river at Worcester; an iron one has lately been erected near Tewkesbury; and the only bridge lower down the river, is a handsome one of stone at Gloucester.
The navigable connections of this river are the Montgomeryshire Canal, which is supplied by it at Newtown; the Shrewsbury Canal at Shrewsbury; the Shropshire Canal at the Hay; the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and the Leominster Canal at Stourport; the Droitwich Canal at Hawford; the Birmingham and Worcester Canal at Diglis, below Worcester; the River Avon at Tewkesbury; the Coombe Hill Canal at Fletcher's Leap; the Hereford and Gloucester (when completed) at Gloucester; the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal at Gloucester, and its outlet at Sharpness Point; the Stroud Canal at Framiload; the Lydney Canal below Lydney; the River Wye at Beachley; the Bristol River Avon at Morgan's Pill; and the Monmouthshire Canal at Newport In addition to these canals, there are many railways connecting this river with the numerous coal and other mines, which are in its course.
SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY AND CANAL.
49 Geo. III. C. 159, R. A. 10th June, 1809.
50 Geo. III. C. 215, R. A. 21st June, 1810.
51 Geo. III. C. 193, R. A. 26th June, 1811.
54 Geo. III. C. 42, R. A. 18th May, 1814.
3 Geo. IV. C. 75, R. A. 21st June, 1822.
THIS railway crosses the forest of Dean in a direction nearly from north to south, and connects, as the title implies, the Rivers Severn and Wye. Commencing from the River Wye at a place called Bishop's Wood, and proceeding thirteen miles and a half through the forest, it terminates in a basin at Cross Pill, a little below Lydney, and from thence is connected with the Severn at Nass Point by a canal one mile in length. There are nine
