Catalogue description Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company

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Reference: RAIL 826
Title: Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company
Description:

Minutes of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company.

Date: 1793-1846
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ECC.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company, 1813-1845

Physical description: 9 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated under act of 21st May 1813 as "United Company of Proprietors of Ellesmere and Chester Canals" by uniting of Chester and Ellesmere Canals. Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation was also united with this company by act of 8th May 1845. By act of 3rd August 1846, company was incorporated as "Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company"; Act was to be cited as "Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, Chester and Wolverhampton Line Act 1846".

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