'Fuelling the local economy. The Fenland coal trade, 1760-1850' in A Kunz & J Armstrong (eds), Inland Navigation and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Europe

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Author(s) Wood, Fiona
Publication type Chapter in dissertation
Year published 1995
Pages pp261-76
Publisher Verlag Philipp von Zabern

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Deals with development of transport and trading systems served by Great Ouse River and its tributaries in order to review development of the navigation network and the coal traffic it carried; to analyse the linkage of river navigation with road transport; to assess the impact of this on the local merchanting community