£9.95
Title: The Leicester and Melton Mowbray Navigations
Author: Philip A Stevens
Publisher: Alan Sutton
Publication Date: 1992
Format: Hardback
Condition: Black covers which are in a good condition with gilt lettering to spine. It comes with a dust jacket which is also in a good condition but has been price clipped. The pages are bright and clean with many photographic illustrations throughout.
Book measures 23cm x 16cm with 154 pages.
1 in stock
At the end of the eighteenth century when the demands of the Industrial Revolution for cheap coal triggered a search for reduced transport costs, the need was seen for extending the Loughborough Navigation south along the River Soar to Leicester. Despite the problems which beset the scheme an Act was Passed in 1791 and the navigation opened in 1794. Opposition from west Leicestershire coal owners necessitated a branch to Loughborough and a further scheme for canalizing the River Wreake opened up east Leicestershire and the area around Melton Mowbray in 1795.
In this book Philip Stevens has traced the history of these navigations from difficulties with neighbouring navigations, and competition with the railways, to their decline, and in the case of the Melton Mowbray its demise.
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