HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

58.1831.

NAVIGABLE RIVERS, CANALS,

AND

RAILWAYS,

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

AS A REFERENCE TO

NICHOLS, PRIESTLEY & WALKER'S

NEW MAP OF INLAND NAVIGATION,

DERIVED FROM ORIGINAL AND PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS

IN THE POSSESSION OF

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, Esq.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN & GREEN, PATERNOSTER ROW,

G. AND J. CARY, MAP AND GLOBE SELLERS, 86, ST. JAMES'S-STREET,

AND

RICHARD NICHOLS, WAKEFIELD

MDCCCXXXI.

ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL.

WAKEFIELD:

RICHARD NICHOLS, TYPOGRAPHER,

MARKET PLACE.

THE

LARGE SIX SHEET MAP

OF THE

INLAND NAVIGATION AND RAILWAYS,

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

THE UNINTERRUPTED LABOUR OF SEVEN YEARS,

TO WHICH THIS VOLUME FORMS A REFERENCE,

HAVING RECEIVED THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF THE

LATE KING,

IS NOW,

BY THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS,

AND

WITH PERMISSION,

MOST GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO

KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH,

BY HIS MAJESTY'S MOST OBEDIENT

AND MOST DEVOTED SUBJECTS AND SERVANTS,

NICHOLS, PRIESTLEY & WALKER.