Why Was The Gloucester And Sharpness Canal Built?

The history The River Severn was especially treacherous below Gloucester. In 1793 Midlands industrialists together with merchants and other influential residents of Gloucester obtained an Act to construct a ship canal between Gloucester and Berkeley to bypass this bottleneck. Who built Gloucester and Sharpness canal? engineer Robert MylneConceived in the canal mania period of the …

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