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  • Date is exactly "1966"

Cheshire Waterways

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Map of Cheshire Waterways. From Iredale's thesis 'Canal Settlement', p.20.

Frontispiece

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Frontispiece from Iredale's thesis 'Canal settlement'.

Canal settlement: A study of the origin and growth of the canal settlement at Barnton in Cheshire between 1775 and 1845

Map makers often left Barnton off their plans of Cheshire, though neighbouring places all appeared. Tourists avoided the township, remaining, on the important high ways that encircled but did not touch Barnton. Historians and topographers hesitated…