The work is one of infinite importance, whether considered as a drainage or as a ready means of communication between the country through which it passes, and other parts of the kingdom.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE CANAL.
35 George III. Cap. 87, Royal Assent 2nd June, 1795.
THIS canal was projected for the purpose of supplying the potteries with coal from the mines near Newcastle, and for opening an easier transit for the limestone from Caldon Lowe, through the Trent and Mersey Canal. The act for this work is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from and out of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, at or near Stoke-upon-Trent, in the county of Stafford, to the town of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the said county,' and by it the proprietors, incorporated as "The Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal Company," are empowered to raise the sum of £7,000, in shares of £50 each, with an additional £3,000 on mortgage of the rates, if necessary, for completing the same. They have also power to collect the following
TONNAGE RATES.
| For all Coal, Lime-stone and Iron-stone | 1½d per Ton, per Mile. |
| For all other Goods | 2d ditto. ditto. |
| If less than a Ton in a Boat | 6d per Mile. |
The canal is about three miles long, in a direction nearly west, commencing at Stoke-upon-Trent, in the Trent and Mersey Canal, and ending at the town of Newcastle, in the Newcastle-under-Lyne Junction Canal.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE JUNCTION CANAL.
38 George III. Cap. 29, Royal Assent 26th May, 1798.
THE act for making this canal, was obtained in 1798 under the title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, and Inclined Plane or Railway, from and out of the Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal to the Canal of Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley, Bart. near the town of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and also another Branch of Canal, or Inclined Plane or Railway, from and out of the said
