Dorset & Somerset Canal. An illustrated history
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- Author(s) Clew, Kenneth R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1971
- Pages 116pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Narrative history by a specialist on canals in the Somerset region. Has chapters: 'A canal from Bristol to Poole 1793'; 'The route is agreed, 1793-5'; 'Construction beginnings, 1796-8'; 'The balance lock, 1799-1802'; 'In stagnation, 1803-25'; 'The Western Railway, 1825' [pp64-71]; 'The Radstock, Shaftesbury & Poole Railway' [pp72-9]; 'Epilogue'. Includes much on Somerset coalfield